Re: [Boost-build] glob-tree question

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] glob-tree question
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-30 08:46:49

On 5/21/2015 4:37 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Boost.Python contains two "implicit.hpp" headers, once in
> include/boost/python/ and once in include/boost/python/converter/, and
> it seems as if the installation would try to copy both files to the
> installation location, ignoring their relative (subdirectory) path.
> I also tried the glob-tree rule (rather than path.glob-tree), which
> yields the error
>
>    error: The patterns to 'glob-tree' may not include directory
>
> which I don't understand, as the glob-tree rule appears to be defined to
> take a 'roots' argument which is a (directory) location.
>
> What am I missing ?
>
> What is the suggested way to install headers, while preserving their
> directory structure (relative to some common prefix) ?

Stefan,

Does the "Preserving Directory Hierarchy" section at

        http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/tasks/installing.html

help?

Thanks,
Volodya