Re: boost-build support for pre-built boost libraries?

Roland Schwarz wrote:
>     But I seriosuly doubt this is allowed.

Hmm, but it does work.

I came up with something in the attached file. I would be
very pleased 
if someone could have a look at it, and tell me if this is
fragile code
or if there are any other pitfalls I don't see yet.

The code for the actual tagging is missing yet, but this
could be made
along Volodyas proposal.

Thank you so much.

Roland


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I tried to work out Volodyas proposal a little more.
It looks very promising what I got so far.

I generalized the concept and introduced an external-lib
target
which derives from searched-lib. The generator is in the
file
external.jam.

Basically a <name> property is added, that allows
indirect rule calls,
i.e. <name>myrule .

This works on linux so far. However I expect a problem on
msvc
compilers: The static (searched) boost libraries are
prefixed with
a "lib" tag which is not part of the compilers
policy, but boost
policy. So I think the boost tag rule will need to be
altered to
capture this. What do you think?

My solution is in the both attached files.

I appreciate any feedback!

Roland


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