Re: [Boost-build] Improved Boost.Build install

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Improved Boost.Build install
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-20 06:40:41

On Tuesday 20 July 2010 13:06:04 Gevorg Voskanyan wrote:

Hi Gevorg,

> > I've committed a set of patches that make is *much* easier to  install 
> >Boost.Build itself.
> > Now, given a source tree, one should  do:
> > 
> >     - ./bootstrap.sh [or .\bootstrap.bat]
> >      - ./bjam --prefix=PREFIX install
> 
> 
> I'd suggest the doc to explicitly state this to be done in 
> BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/v2 when using whole Boost source tree to get Boost.Build, 
> otherwise it might be confused with BOOST_ROOT/bootstrap.sh

I've added a paragraph to that effect to the docs.

> 
> > and that's it. When one runs  PREFIX/bin/bjam, it will automatically look for 
> >the
> > rest of Boost.Build in  PREFIX/share/boost-build, so there's no need to set
> > BOOST_BUILD_PATH, or  boost-build.jam, or anything else.
> 
> 
> Sweet.
> 
> > Comments  appreciated.
> 
> 
> Will this be shipped with upcoming Boost 1.44?

Nope. These changes are too big to force into release at this point.

Thanks,

--
Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
Boost.Build: http://boost.org/boost-build2