On Wednesday 11 March 2009 06:54:24 François Mauger wrote:
Up to now and AFAIK it seems Boost does not provide such script that could be generated at build stage for any Unix-like system. Of course, I wrote my own script for my own usage (and for people who work with me). But at the end, I think it would be better to use an `official' tool. For my experience, it is also a strong argument to convince newbies to use Boost on top of standard C++, because it comes in some rather transparent way.
So I have a few questions: - Is there such a script hidden in the Boost source tree?
No, to the best of my knowledge.
- If not, is there any plan to provide one?
Again, no; however, if you use bjam or cmake, it is possible to obtain the information with a little extra work.
- Is someone else interested with it?
I am interested. However, this question should be asked in the boost.build and in the boost.cmake mailing lists because a boost-config file script would be generated at install time by the appropriate build system. It is very easy to write a cmake script to do it and is probably just as easy for boost.build. Patches would likely be welcome on both mailing lists. Regards, Ravi