On 27 April 2010 22:20, Andrew Sutton <andrew.n.sutton@gmail.com> wrote:
That's a good question. It's been so long since I figured out how to do that I'm not sure I remember :) This is one of those things that once you learn to do once, you just end up copying around and forgetting about it.
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: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/example/ Although others might disagree with how I set it up. A little while ago I noticed that someone else had the same idea before me, although I haven't looked into it yet: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SandboxTemplate Daniel