Re: [boost] Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

Nigel Stewart wrote:

Our specific requirement is to statically link _our_ preferred version of zlib built from _our_ pristine (and possibly patched) repo. There is no build reproducability via system packages that get patched over time, or are pinned to a historical version for the purpose of system stability.

As I said, this is accomplished by putting the following line in one of the b2 configuration files, for example user-config.jam: using zlib : 1.3.1 : <include>/opt/zlib-1.3.1/include <search>/opt/zlib-1.3.1/lib <name>our-zlib-name-1.3.1 ; if we assume that your zlib headers are in /opt/zlib-1.3.1./include and your prebuilt binary is /opt/zlib-1.3.1/lib/our-zlib-name-1.3.1.a. Same for zstd (or bzip2 or lzma).