Paul A. Bristow wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Vladimir Prus Sent: 22 November 2008 08:40 To: Boost mailing list Subject: [boost] Building 'stage' by default
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:
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?
This sounds sensible to me.
Could all the messages be even more specific - giving full paths? Is 'source tree' obvious to newbies?
I don't know. Full paths can easily make this message poorly formatted.
But don't many people really just want the library in a boost-root/lib directory?
I don't know why we use 'stage/lib' by default -- given that we never create any other subdirectories of 'stage' or put any files there. Maybe, everything should go into 'stage' directly?
(leaving aside that the naming of all these sub directories seemed dotty to a Windows-newbie - but there you go...).
"dotty"? - Volodya