On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:12:04 -0400 David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
What's a builddir?
The --builddir option to bjam, as documented in boost/more/getting_started.html
but when running bjam NOT from the top-level directory, I seem to have a very difficult time getting things to build properly.
Can you give some clues as to what problems you have?
It always wants to build and link in $BOOST_ROOT/bin/boost instead of the build directories. I build for speveral different OS/compiler versions out of the same source tree.
I am fairly comfortable with building boost. However, anytime I have to delve into the specific directories, I find that the builds are VERY different from invoking bjam in the top directory, especially when using the builddir and stagedir commands from the top level directory.
There are no such commands anywhere else.
You can set ALL_LOCATE_TARGET to point at the root directory of a build tree, if that helps.
I'll try that again. The last time I tried that one, it didn't work quite right, and I reverted back to using a separate directory and building all in the "default" location. It's funny, though, because the documentation for building boost suggests using a separate build directory, yet it seems a bit clumsy to get it to work appropriately from subdirs. Also, when a do a bjam clean from within a subdirectory, it removes the needed libraries as well. Thus, when I rebuild, it has to rebuild the test libraries too...