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From: Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> To: boost@lists.boost.org Sent: 29.5.'09, 8:54
Emil Dotchevski wrote On Friday, May 29, 2009 3:37 AM
One way to make building libs as painless as not having to build them is to use Boost Build itself to build your programs. It makes the presence of cpps/libs an implementation detail. In my own code repository, I have many libs and many cpp files and many header-only libs and I don't keep track which is which -- Boost Build figures it out for me.
That's simply not going to happen for most Boost users, so it's a non-starter.
But boost.build can be used to copy only the headers of the requested libraries on install. And make bcp deprecated.
_____ Rob Stewart robert.stewart@sig.com Software Engineer, Core Software using std::disclaimer; Susquehanna International Group, LLP http://www.sig.com