Re: [Boost-users] Build and Install only a Specified Library fromcommand line using bjam (newbie!)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Build and Install only a Specified Library fromcommand line using bjam (newbie!)
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-22 14:38:58

Hmmm - maybe I'm misunderstanding the question but I think I do this all the 
time:

a) I move the libs/serialization/test directory
b) I invoke ../../../tools/regression/src/library_test.sh (or bat)
c) read the help
d) invoke ../../../tools/regression/src/library_test.sh with the proper 
toolset and other options
e) thinks crank away building everthing that is needed (including ANY other 
need libraries).
f) I get a report indicating which tests passed/failed
g) I have to move by hand the compiled libraries/shared_libraries to a 
common place

Then I'm in business - and as a side effect, I've tested the library in my 
environment.

I don't know if this would work for all libraries or it is an unintended 
feature of the Jamfile
in the serialization library test directory.

Robert Ramey

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Agnel C J Kurian wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to build and install selected Boost libraries
>> (regex, graph, program options) from the command line (MS VC9
>> Express) using the --with-library option of bjam. However I find
>> that bjam copies headers for all boost libraries to the target
>> location. How do I build and install only the specified library and
>> it's headers?
>
> It's not possible. "its headers" typically depend on lots of other
> boost headers.
>
> What are you trying to achieve?
>
> - Volodya