On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Vladimir Prus wrote:
We presently have 3 ways of building C++ Boost from top-level directory:
- with 'stage' target -- only libraries are installed - with 'install' target -- both libraries and headers are installed - with no explicit target -- everything is built, but nothing installed
It seems to me that the first two options are what the majority of users will want, so some of them should be the default. I have a local patch that makes 'stage' the default, and additionally prints the following message:
`bjam stage` seems like a developer-only target. Following in the unix tradition, I always do `bjam; bjam install` (with the appropriate prefix set).
Performing 'stage' build by default: - binaries installed into 'stage/lib' - headers not installed, use the source tree Use the 'install' target for complete installation.
This message is printed only if no explicit target is specified -- if user types 'stage' or 'install', it's assumed he knows what he's doing.
Anybody has any comments on this change in defaults, or about the wording of the message?
Ok, 'stage' seems innocuous enough (as long as the stage path is a subdirectory of PWD) that there's no real harm in this change. The wording could be simplified to "" Performing 'bjam stage': build and copy libraries to '<stage-lib>' Use 'bjam install' to copy headers to '<inst-headers>' and libraries to '<inst-libs>'. "" Where the <>s are the actual paths, something like <stage-lib> ./stage/lib <inst-headers> /usr/local/include/boost-1.37 <inst-libs> /usr/local/lib64 - Daniel