Re: [Boost-build] Referring to a project from outside a Boost tree

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Referring to a project from outside a Boost tree
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (v_gevorg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-02 13:56:20

Edward Diener wrote:

> For my sandbox library, tested from outside of a Boost tree, I wanted to try 
>use  the unit test framework. I looked how Boost libraries others do this and 
>noticed  a reference to the unit test framework as  
>'/boost/test//boost_unit_test_framework/<link>static'. But if I specify  this 
>from outside a Boost tree, how do I tell Boost Build how to find this  project ?
> 
> For including header files I used the common technique of  setting 
>$(BOOST_ROOT) to a Boost tree and then having project requirements of  
>'<include>.&&$(BOOST_ROOT)'. Is there a similar technique for  having the Build 
>system find a Boost project in a Boost tree  ?

use-project /boost : $(BOOST_ROOT) ;

should do the trick.

HTH,
Gevorg