Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Re: Re: Slight Alteration to Boost Directory Structure

From: "Paul Mensonides" "William E. Kempf" wrote in message news:20030108174453.YIAW22825.lakemtao04.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net...

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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 , not .

...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. ); I'm talking about the include directories that the compiler searches, which is external to the source code.

That still misses the point. Boost currently won't help you to install the library, but installation certainly wouldn't entail copying the entire $BOOST_ROOT tree to the $INCLUDE directory on your system. You'd only copy the $BOOST_ROOT/boost tree there. William E. Kempf wekempf@cox.net