
21 Jan
2009
21 Jan
'09
9:27 a.m.
on Wed Jan 21 2009, Michael Marcin <mike.marcin-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
Mathias Gaunard wrote:
Anis Benyelloul wrote:
- The header file dependencies are unclear... it makes very difficult to ``extract'' just the library you need from the tarball (it is not enough to copy the directory whose name matches the library you want)
The bcp tool, that has existed for a while, does just that.
Is bcp a name that is supposed to mean something? The documentation page doesn't seem to suggest any rational for the name bcp. Doesn't matter too much just curious.
I always assumed "b => Boost" and "cp => Unix cp" (copy) -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com