19 May
2005
19 May
'05
5:53 p.m.
Why is this so? What purpose does it serve, if I may ask. Why not just put the relative path in the files?
You can move the Jamfiles around the Boost project without concern for where they are. Also, when you're deep in a project like libs/python/test, it's much clearer to write $(BOOST_ROOT)/whatever than ../../whatever. Can you tell at a glance what the latter refers to?
I see.
Will this be useful for other projects?
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
Forget about it. It's way off topic, and actually, it was a stupid question to begin with. I really appreciate you spending your time answering my questions, Yuval