On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 22:28 +0000, Richard wrote:
OK, so still looking for an answer to this question:
What git repo do I clone in order to get the build tools?
I would wait until it is fixed proper or simply copy tools/build files from latest boost release. If you have to try out this with git, there is a repository you can clone. But be warned, some of this is not trivial unless you know git well. It is also a bit of a mess as the structure in tools/build is changed in the conversion and the top level scripts are not updated accordingly. It is still being discussed how to deal with this, and the structure may change again or change back. # clone boost git clone --recursive http://github.com/boostorg/boost cd boost Now all should be in place, but as you noted tools/build is missing. To add tools/build submodule manually in boost repository, you may create a branch to work on add it. git checkout -b feature/fix-broken-build git submodule add http://github.com/boostorg/build tools/build But as you will see, the cloned tools/build submodule suffers from the restructure of tools/build into tools/build/build :-( You could checkout a branch in the submodule and edit the submodule for your own needs - whatever they are, e.g. setting structure back to tools/build/v2, not tools/build/build/v2: cd tools/build git checkout -b feature/fix-broken-build git mv build/* . git commit -m "only tools/build, not tools/build/build" Then in the boost meta repository you may add the changed build submodule to index and commit. cd ../.. git add tools/build git commit -m "only tools/build, not tools/build/build" Then later, when you get updates upstream you could rebase your changes on top of upstream commits from Boost2Git conversion with something like. Be warned, I suspect you may hit non-trivial possibly confusing rebase if you try it on the boost meta repository as the conversion scripts are still adjusted, thus history change all the time - that will stabilize when the switch is done. So the rebase is simpler if you do it only in your tools/build submodule to get your changes applied on top of the latest upstream. git fetch git rebase origin/master hope that helps, -- Bjørn