[pkg-boost-devel] Package using boost.build v2

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hello everyone,

Very recently I started working on a package, mcrl2, that uses 
boost.build v2 as its build & install system.  However, I ran into some
issues and I hope that you can advise me.

1) The upstream tarball ships boost under 3rd-party/boost.  This is
   quite a big chunk of source, namely 24MB.  Would you advise for or
   against creating a tarball without this part and use boost-build
   and/or bjam from Debian?

2) In debian/rules I perform (in different targets), the following
   steps:

     % ./configure
        (creates build/{Makefile,config.jam})
     % make
        (which is: build/bin/bjam --prefix=/usr)
     % make install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr
        (which is: build/bin/bjam --prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr --install)

   However, during the install phase, bjam for some reason relinks all
   the binaries and libraries to `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr, which I
   obviously do not want.  How can I prevent this?

3) When I submit the resulting package to lintian, lintian gives the
   following complaint:
     W: mcrl2: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/chi2mcrl2
       /home/paul/tmp/build/mcrl2-200801/debian/mcrl2/usr/lib/mcrl2

   How or where can I tell boost.build not to do the RPATH stuff?

Note that I am quite new at this boost.build system.  I know some
autotools, but haven't fully grasped what boost.build and bjam
are exactly doing.

N.B. If you want to have a look at the upstream tarball, see: 
http://www.mcrl2.org/download/release/mcrl2-200801.tar.bz2.

Thanks in advance,
Paul

P.S. Please Cc me! I am not on this list (yet).

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