Re: [boost] What would make tool authors happier..

Daniel James wrote: ...

On 5 June 2015 at 03:50, Rene Rivera wrote: ...

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It was a chore to create because it went something like this: a) build the doctools (quickbook) and get errors, b) look at the mising header errors and determine which library was missing, c) find the library git repo, d) add the submodule for it at root/libs, e) repeat. ...

Since Boost Build scans for include files, is it possible to get it to list all the files it thinks are required? I realise it's not entirely accurate because of macros, but hopefully it would be good enough.

boostdep can do that, but it doesn't support modules in tools/ as a starting point. bcp can also output an include report, but it only lists headers, whereas boostdep lists modules. The easiest way right now is probably to symlink libs/quickbook to tools/quickbook and then run "boostdep --secondary quickbook".