Re: [Boost-users] --layout=system in user-config.jam?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] --layout=system in user-config.jam?
From: Raymond Wan (rwan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-17 06:53:20

Hi Vladimir,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply!  Looking forward to the new 
version.  :-)

Ray

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Raymond Wan wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In a recent post (a few weeks ago), someone asked if it is possible to
>> remove the compiler name/version from the library name.
>>
>> i.e., libboost_math_c99-gcc43-mt-1_37.so -->  libboost_math_c99-mt.so
>>
>> Someone replied that adding "--layout=system" to bjam would do the trick
>> and indeed, that worked.  When compiling Boost, I was wondering if it is
>> possible to add this parameter to the user-config.jam file, rather than
>> editting the Makefile directly?  If so, what would be the syntax to do
>> this?  Somewhere, I read that user-config.jam "define[s] available
>> toolsets" -- I guess this parameter is not a toolset, so it is not possible?
>>
>> The reason I am asking is rather silly -- but just that editting the
>> Makefile is slightly more error-prone than sending a user-config.jam to
>> someone (or backing it up myself for later use) since the Makefile could
>> change based on what configure outputs.
>>     
>
> It is not possible currently. For next Boost release, it will be possible
> to have, in your project, a file called project-config.jam that can specify
> pretty much everything. That, additionally, will make configure/make approach
> no longer relevant.
>
> - Volodya
>
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