that's what I'm doing now. I just want to fully understand the new jam way of building/using boost, and eg to see what is neccessary to use the 'new way'. Will the 'old way' be deprecated someday?

Probably not any time soon.

Does/will the new way support static libs?

It does for regex, can't comment on anything else though. - John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/