Re: [Boost-build] `../../../b2 -a` fails to update headers

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] `../../../b2 -a` fails to update headers
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-05 05:50:35

On 05.03.2014 14:23, Antony Polukhin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to do some fixes in libs/conversion/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp but looks like `../../../b2 -a` does not update the
> headers in boost/ folder any more.
>
> Calling `./b2 headers` or `./b2 headers -a` does not help either.
>
> Is that a known issue or am I doing something wrong?

Antony,

are you saying that if you go to root directory, touch some header, and run "./b2 headers" that header is not updated, in
that the copy of the file is different from the original? What file is that?

I am not quite sure how this can happen, given that filesystem links are normally used.

- Volodya