Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

On Jun 18, 2017, at 10:13 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

"P F" wrote:

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git clone https://github.com/boostorg/hana cd hana b2 install

Does anybody actually do this? It feels completely alien to me.

I am not sure why it would feel alien, the getting started guide has those same steps: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_64_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html...

Where would the headers go?

I don’t know what Boost.Build defaults to, but you can control where boost gets installed with the `--prefix` flag.

What will happen to the already existing system Boost installation?

I believe the install rule copies the files, so they would just be replaced.

What if I want to uninstall?

You would delete the directory, unless boost build supports a `b2 uninstall` that is created from the install rule.