[Boost-users] [bcp] [shared_ptr] Extracting subset of boost for shared_ptr - 3.2MB?

From: Tyler Mandry (tmandry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-18 00:19:00

I extracted a subset of boost using bcp so that my project could use
shared_ptr. The exact line I used is this:

$ bcp --boost=/usr/include boost/shared_ptr.hpp boost/

This gave me more than just the boost headers, but any other way and
it wouldn't work. It wasn't a problem though; I could just use the
files in the newly-created boost/boost directory and wipe out anything
else. So I was left with, presumably, all the boost headers and files
that depended on shared_ptr.hpp.

But, after running du, I found that the extracted directory was a
whopping 3.2MB - bigger than the existing code of my project
altogether. bcp had given me 274 different header files. All for just
one smart pointer class?

Is this correct? Am I using bcp correctly? Are there some paths that
bcp is taking that aren't really neccessary? Can I narrow this huge
vat of files down to the ones that I *really* need, or is this it?
How?

Regards and thanks,
--
Tyler Mandry