Re: [Boost-build] Pointing to a Boost tree for bjam

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Pointing to a Boost tree for bjam
From: Frédéric Bron (frederic.bron_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-15 16:29:01

> Often I will get some sandbox library into a separate directory from the
> latest Boost trunk using SVN. I then want to use Boost build to create docs
> or run tests using this sandbox library. But efforts fail unless I put the
> library under a Boost implementation or my own latest Boost trunk because,
> evidently, bjam can not find the rest of Boost in which the sandbox build(s)
> depends.

You can keep boost_sandbox apart from boost main trunk.
Then you just need to set the environment variable BOOST_BUILD_PATH to
point to "<path-to-boost-trunk>/tools/build/v2".

Frédéric