Help me pay the piper?

From: dick.bridges_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-05-08 12:51:02

Now that I've used all this swell stuph, it's time to pay the piper:  turn
it over to QC and get it into "The Build".  Unfortunately the QC people
would like some instructions that describe which version of boost-build I'm
using; how to install it; which version of the libs I'm using; etc.

<some background>
It's been a couple of months since I started with the boost libs, and I
don't remember all the gyrations I went through to get it working and I'm
POSITIVE I did a LOT more than is required.  I remember that, after
downloading and extracting boost_1_27_0.tar.gz, I had to get the current
version from CVS before I could get a clean compile.  (I tried turning over
copies of my disk drives to them but it turns out that is not considered
acceptable documentation. %>[ )

I've been following the jamboost and Boost-Users mailing lists so I know
there've been quite a few changes - especially to boost-build.  After
building a "clean" testbed machine, I started by downloading
boost-build.win.zip and following the instructions in the readme.html.
Well, that didn't work.  I can do a hand job on the path but I'm not sure
what environment variables are actually required.

Current plan is to pull the library source directly from CVS.  Problem is,
I don't know what version to tell QC I'm using and, unless all the folks at
boost.org would agree not to add anything to CVS for a while, I SURE can't
tell them how to re-create what I did.  ;)
</some background>

I can always take what I've got; check it in and call it a day but that's
not the path to getting boost integrated into the development environment
around here.  (Hey, I'm trying to be an evangelist here.)  Anyone by any
chance working on some updated instructions and/or docs that maybe aren't
ready for prime time but would be willing to share?

TIA

PS:  Current target systems are Win2000, SP2 and Visual C++ 6.0, SP5 and
vanilla Red Had Linux 7.2.