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Subject: [Boost-build] Finding boost-build.jam upon invocation of bjam
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-01 20:03:52
I think it would be very useful if the sequence of finding
boost-build.jam upon invocation of 'bjam' took into consideration the
--boost option passed to 'bjam' and looked in that directory also for a
boost-build.jam file as a last resort.
The reason I am suggesting this is because a possible Boost library
distributed in the suggested directory structure for sandbox libraries
would not need to have its local directory beneath a filesystem tree
which had a boost-build.jam for 'bjam' to work as long as a
'--boost=path/to/boost/distribution' were specified on the 'bjam'
command line in order to point to a Boost distribution. Whereas
currently, if a possible Boost library is not placed locally beneath a
directory with its boost-build.jam, such as occurs when one checks out
the top-level sandbox directory files, its jam files will not work at
all even if the end-user invoking them uses the
'--boost=path/to/boost/distribution' option.
I believe any Boost-like library, no matter where the end-user places it
on his local system, should have their jam files working correctly as
long as the '--boost=path/to/boost/distribution' option is used to point
to a Boost distribution or the library itself is copied/moved into a
Boost distribution structure.
I do understand that one can set the environment variable to
BOOST_BUILD_PATH to point to boost build. But I think that requiring an
environment variable to be set rather than allowing for the flexibility
of the '--boost=path/to/boost/distribution' to find boost build in the
top-level directory of an installation is a much poorer alternate way of
working.
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