How to turn off header installation during boost build?

Question

Whilst running the b2 install command as well as getting the libs I need built/installed the header files are copied over to the include directory.

While I am iterating on build settings, is it possible to turn off the include copy as it makes the whole process very slow due to the sheer volume of hpp files?

Answer 1

You may enable tagged layout with --layout=tagged and set copy destination to boost source folder, b2 would just check those files instead of copying.

So command may look like this:

b2 install --layout=tagged --includedir="/path/to/your/boost/source/dir/"