I think I've been using an environment variable, BOOST_ROOT to point to ~/boost/trunk. I forget if bjam will automatically recognize that or not. If not, you might look at some of the bjam files in the Boost.Math library. That library seems to get the build environment "just right" :)
I think you need to include a 'project-root.jam' which tells boost build to use the environment variable. I created an example of how a sandbox library might be structured here:
thanks, this helps a bit ... would it be possible to extend the example by a test program? i have tried to set up a build environment, but it doesn't find my testsuite ... thanks, tim -- tim@klingt.org http://tim.klingt.org I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion Jack Kerouac