[Boost-build] Way to build boost component from a GitHub repo?

Subject: [Boost-build] Way to build boost component from a GitHub repo?
From: Tal Lancaster (tal.lancaster_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-22 16:48:05

Hello,

I have been making changes to date_time which I cloned from GitHub.  Now I want to build and run the test files included in that repository.  How can I go about building and running these tests making use of the boost build mechanism?

In the boost docs, I noticed bjam and b2, which appear to work off of .jam files.  However, the date_time repository seems to be using Jamfile.v2 files, which I haven’t found any reference to.

I do have the boost_1_64_0 source distribute and run the bootstrap so I have bjam and b2.

Thanks,

Tal