Re: [Boost-build] [BBv2] limiting <install-dependencies>on

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-07 15:39:39

On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:44 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Friday 06 October 2006 10:10, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>>
>> When I use it to install shared libraries, I find that only the
>> shared libraries defined in the project sources are installed.  But I
>> want to install the shared libraries in the project sources plus any
>> shared libraries they depend on.  I tried using <install-
>> dependencies>on, but it appears to hang bjam (ran for two+ hours, no
>> change in memory footprint).  Also, does enabling the install
>> dependencies property figure out the dependencies just based on the
>> <install-type> properties present in the install rule, or does it try
>> to identify all the header, source and library dependencies?
>
> <install-dependencies>on is supposed to find all Boost.Build  
> targets that
> sources of 'install' rule depend on, in any way. Then, they are  
> filtered by
> target type and installed.
>
> This won't handle searched libraries -- since Boost.Build don't  
> know how
> linker searches for them, and won't handle header dependencies.
>
> If <install-dependencies>on hangs for you, please try to create a  
> minimal
> example and send it to me. Alternatively, you can run bjam -d+5 and  
> send me
> the output. But watch out -- the output can quickly can get very  
> large. You
> might want to run the tail command to get last 10000 lines of the  
> output. If
> there's hang in some rule, last lines should show it.

The last 10k lines don't look really useful to me but where should I  
upload the file?  It's a bit over 20Mb.

-- Noel