18 Jun
2005
18 Jun
'05
3:39 p.m.
Caleb Epstein wrote:
Ok, there is surely more than one "right way", but I was just suggesting that a vendor can build a system-specific package (rpm, deb, etc) from the boost sources without needing to bang on the build system very much. "bjam --layout=system --prefix=tmp/usr install" or thereabouts.
And that's exactly what the --layout=system option was meant to do. It wasn't meant as a substitute for packaging. And was design with feedback from the Boost RedHat package maintainer. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - Grafik/jabber.org