Re: [Boost-build] find-include adds /usr/include even if compiler does not use that path

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] find-include adds /usr/include even if compiler does not use that path
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-20 11:23:04

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
>
> On 03/20/2012 07:57 AM, Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
>> For a cross-compiling build, the compiler will not necessarily use
>> headers from /usr/include, which means that hard-wiring it in is leading
>> to (on my system) attempting to use zlib.h even though that file doesn't
>> exist in the compiler's include path.  Shouldn't the directories to
>> search be found by running the compiler, rather than some other mechanism?
>>
>
> Do you mean find-include-path from ac.jam?
> ac.jam has a number of issues.  I think
> it's best avoided for now.

The problem I have in that file is that Boost.Iostreams won't compile 
because of this bug; I don't use ac.jam directly.  Should I just edit 
ac.jam to use the correct path?

-- Jeremiah Willcock