Subject: Re: [boost] boost-install-ing zlib (Was: Re: [Release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2)
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-13 18:26:36
> > I'll need to try and see what happens with <source> in user-config.
> > Probably nothing good, because one would expect neither <build-name> nor
> > <tag> to be specified in such a case.
>
> If I remove the check for ZLIB_SOURCE, and just do
>
> alias boost_zlib : /zlib//zlib ;
> libraries-to-install += boost_zlib ;
>
> unconditionally in libs/iostreams/build/Jamfile, this is what happens:
>
> - when `using zlib : : <source>C:/Projects/zlib-1.2.11 ;` is in
> user-config, the default `b2 install` fails because `address-model=32,64
> variant=debug,release` conflict as all try to build `libz.lib`. When
> address-model=32 variant=debug is given, `libz.lib` is installed in
> C:\Boost\lib, and the CMake configuration for boost_zlib correctly points
> to it.
And if I use
using zlib : : <source>C:/Projects/zlib-1.2.11 <build-name>z32d :
<address-model>32 <variant>debug ;
using zlib : : <source>C:/Projects/zlib-1.2.11 <build-name>z64d :
<address-model>64 <variant>debug ;
using zlib : : <source>C:/Projects/zlib-1.2.11 <build-name>z32 :
<address-model>32 <variant>release ;
using zlib : : <source>C:/Projects/zlib-1.2.11 <build-name>z64 :
<address-model>64 <variant>release ;
instead, `b2 install --with-iostreams` works as expected. It would be more
user-friendly if we somehow did automatically apply <tag> to the simple
using zlib : : <source>C:/Projects/zlib-1.2.11 ;
, but zlib.jam is in Boost.Build and the <tag> is in Boost Jamroot. :-/
Either way, a more correct check for whether `boost-install boost_zlib`
needs to be performed is "whether /zlib//zlib is being built from source",
but I'm not sure how to express this condition.