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: Robert Collyer (rcollyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-02 15:21:09

My complaint about using use-project is that it will recompile the boost 
libs with the options you've specified for your project even though 
you'd like it to use the pre-built/installed libs.

I know there is a boost.jam file in contrib which would do what I want.  
But, it uses an outdated library naming scheme, so it is unable to find 
the installed libraries.  Has anyone updated it, but not submitted it 
for distribution by any chance?

Thanks,
Rob Collyer

On 6/2/11 12:56 PM, Gevorg Voskanyan wrote:
> 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
>
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