On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Jürgen Hunold
Hi Peter,
Am Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2014, 17:35:18 schrieb Peter Dimov:
Currently, the Boost root contains the following files:
boost-build.jam boostcpp.jam boostcpp.py bootstrap.bat bootstrap.sh Jamroot
which are part of Boost.Build and so their rightful place is in the submodule.
No, they are needed to _build_ all other Boost libraries. They are not part of Boost.Build itself, which works fine without those files.
They are like the individual Jamfile{.v2} which are needed to build and test the libraries.
Would it be possible to move them there, and leave only minimal forwarding shims (that would never need to change) in the superproject?
There are where they belong. They define some important things like global version number, build directories etc. pp. which are common to all Boost libraries.
I was in the middle of replying to say essentially the same :-) So.. +1. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail