Re: [Boost-build] [git] genrating forward headers

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [git] genrating forward headers
From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-19 05:17:16

On 07/19/2013 03:26 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> Bjørn Roald <bjorn <at> 4roald.org> writes:
>
>> On 07/17/2013 03:19 PM, Jürgen Hunold wrote:
>>> Yes. Please find my last attempt attached.
>>>
>>> boost_root.diff for the master repository
>>> boost_build.diff for the change to Boost.Build
>>>
>>> This should enable "b2 headers" for symlink generation.
>> Ok, had a shot at this.  Applied the patches to the latest at GitHub.
> Can we please get these patches applied to trunk?
>
> As long as they have to be applied by hand, that limits use to a tiny
> handful of people. We need these in trunk as soon as possible so they can
> propagate to modular-boost.
>
> Once that is done, the number of eyes looking at and testing the
> modular-boost conversion will go up a lot, and that will flush out bugs much
> faster.

Agree, someone please get this into trunk.  The patches I used are 
attached here:
http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2013/07/26861.php

The problem with execute bit on the unix shell scripts need to be fixed 
in conversion I guess. In the meantime the following steps on Linux 
allow testing:

chmod 775 bootstrap.sh tools/build/v2/engine/build.sh
./bootstrap.sh
./b2 headers
./b2

Note I have not tested on windows.

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Bjørn