On 12/2/2013 5:29 PM, Bjørn Roald wrote:
On 12/02/2013 10:45 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On Windows after the .\b2 headers step, there are these directories under the modular-boost/boost diectory which are not symbolic links:
detail
It is because they have more than one source directory, so a symbolic link will not do what is needed. I do not think windows is changing anything unless you are on a version not supporting symbolic links.
$ find libs -name detail | grep include/boost/detail libs/optional/include/boost/detail libs/detail/include/boost/detail libs/thread/include/boost/detail libs/config/include/boost/detail libs/smart_ptr/include/boost/detail libs/utility/include/boost/detail libs/conversion/include/boost/detail libs/graph/include/boost/detail libs/dynamic_bitset/include/boost/detail
Let me rephrase: Just looking at detail we are evidently duplicating files rather than creating symbolic links to files. For instance in libs/detail, which is a submodule, we have libs/detail/include/boost/detail/allocator_utilities.hpp. In boost/detail we have allocator_utilities.hpp. They are separate files but with the same text. Let us suppose that the libs/detail/include/boost/detail/allocator_utilities.hpp gets updated in git. When this happens, how is the boost/detail/allocator_utilities.hpp supposed to be updated if it is an entirely separate file ?