Re: [boost] Can we get rid of auto-linking?

René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:

But I guess I'll go fix everyone's Jamfile's now. Because authors failed to do that over the past decades. Probably because all build systems are terrible. But likely stemming from C++ building being a giant mess. (insert old-man- screaming-at-clouds image here)

It's because Jamroot defined BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB, so nobody else had to. I used to do the same in the CMake configs installed by b2 but switched to library-specific variables due to... people complaining that autolink didn't work. :-)