id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
7596,process_jam_log - --locate-root doesn't work as advertised,Robert Ramey,Beman Dawes,"Beman,

I've found that --locate-root doesn't permit one to build/test a library outside the boost root directory.  I've made changes to support this and tested it locally on my own projects.  I can't really test it on the whole boost regression testing on my equipment. So I'm a little bit in a quandary.

I'm attaching the patch with my changes.  I hope you can consider rolling them in.

The intention is that it the changes don't change the functioning of the code for current usage.  However, I'm a little at a loss with the library name function.  The problem occurs when there is a ""sublibrary"" file. I'm still looking at this.

My motivation is that I really, really need to be able to run this program from outside the boost directory.  This is to support the current project I'm trying to finish - ""Help for Boost Library Authors - Simple Tools - Build and Test"".  www.blincubator.com .  Basically this is a effort to make it easier to make quality C++ and Boost libraries and support ""modularization"" of boost.  I've invested a lot of effort and hope to be able to finish up these sticky bits.  I've shown my effort to a few cohorts, and response has been unenthusiastic.  As always, I'm not disuaded and have invested too much effort to bail now.  So I hope you can help me with this one sticky detail.

Thanks for any help you can provide on this critical point.

Robert Ramey

 ",Bugs,new,To Be Determined,Regression Testing USE GITHUB,Boost 1.52.0,Problem,,process_jam_log,