*[I initialially raised this question in https://github.com/boostorg/boost/issues/548 https://github.com/boostorg/boost/issues/548, but @mclaw recommended this mailing list.]* Similar to many other packages (eg: curl, krb5, pcre, xml2, xslt etc..), can we also ship boost-config that would provide the installation options ? We can probably start with something like this ? $ /usr/bin/boost-config --help Usage: boost-config [ options ] Options: --cflags print compiler options --ldflags print linker options --prefix print the boost prefix --version print the boost version --help print this usage summary $ /usr/bin/boost-config --version 1.66.0 $ /usr/bin/boost-config --cflags -I/usr/include $ /usr/bin/boost-config --ldflags -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,-R/usr/lib64 Thanks.