[Boost-users] How to build boost out-of-tree?

Subject: [Boost-users] How to build boost out-of-tree?
From: Keitel, Tino (ALC NetworX GmbH) (Tino.Keitel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-31 04:08:24

Hi,

I want to build boost out-of-tree. Usually, this is done like this:

$ mkdir /path/to/build
$ cd /path/to/build
$ /path/to/source/configure
$ make

The actual source is not modified, all output is written in the build
directory.

The best I could find was
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#or-build-custom-binaries, but the bootstrap.sh step will still modify the source directory.

How can I do a real out-of-tree build of boost?

Regards,
Tino