on Tue Mar 26 2013, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

The instructions at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TryModBoost seem to be bogus, apparently because the cloned repo contains no .gitmodules file so the 'git submodule update --init' command does nothing, and I then get an error for the last step:

$ cmake -P forward_headers.cmake CMake Error: Error processing file:forward_headers.cmake

I'm "only" using Git 1.7.12 but I don't think that's the problem.

The older instructions at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMakeModularizationStatus refer to a non-existent http://github.com/boost-lib/boost URL, so they don't work either.

I've looked at several other wiki pages, but they're also inconsistent or don't help. Is there any accurate documentation for modular Boost?

How does someone try modular boost?

Sorry, we're currently in an "in-between" state with a new modularization strategy. The results are going into http://github.com/boostorg. The only problem is that we don't currently have a "super project" that references all the modules as submodules. Reconstructing the history of the super project is a bit of a challenge, which I'm presently working on. I'll try to put notices on those wiki pages. -- Dave Abrahams