[Boost-build] Detecting Boost version

Subject: [Boost-build] Detecting Boost version
From: Matthew Chambers (matt.chambers42_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-25 19:15:35

I want to read the BOOST_LIB_VERSION definition in version.hpp at parse-time; is this possible? If 
not, wouldn't an additional builtin rule like MATCH_FILE be reasonable (runs a regex line-by-line 
against a file) and easy to implement?

-Matt