Re: Re: Re: Slight Alteration to Boost Directory Structure

From: Paul Mensonides (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-08 13:04:15

"William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20030108174453.YIAW22825.lakemtao04.cox.net_at_smtp.east.cox.net...

> > That is not what he (or I) means.  He is suggesting that the path to
> > "shared_ptr.hpp" should be "$INCLUDE/boost/shared_ptr.hpp" rather than
> > "$INCLUDE/boost/boost/shared_ptr.hpp", which is the way it is now.
> > Everything would still be the same for including headers except that
only a
> > single search path is necessary to setup with the compiler.
>
> That's the way it is now *only* if you set your include directories
incorrectly.  When they are properly set to $BOOST_ROOT then it's only
<boost/shared_ptr.hpp>, not <boost/boost/shared_ptr.hpp>.

...which is precisely the point.  You have to have a separate include
directory for Boost, rather than a single directory which contains various
libraries.  I.e. it would be nice to have a directory structure like this:

$INCLUDE/
    Loki/*.*
    Boost/*.*

And then have only a single header directory:  $INCLUDE.  I'm not talking
about the paths in the source code (i.e. <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>); I'm
talking about the include directories that the compiler searches, which is
external to the source code.

Paul Mensonides