Re: Incorrect Boost::headers.INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 05:34:59PM +0100, Anthony Mallet wrote:
> On Sunday  8 Feb 2026, at 14:40, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > I don't know the codebase either. Reading a bit, I found that
> > the scripts are generated by probably generated by boost-jam, see
> > work/boost_1_90_0/tools/boost_install/boost-install.jam
> 
> Ok, thanks for the hint!
> I got some kind of fix, not sure what is wrong extactly though.
> 
> For some reason, without the first attached patch
> (boost-install-dirs.jam), "stage-includedir" is set the BOOST_ROOT
> variable corresponding to the staging directory (WRKSRC/stage) without
> the "include" subdir. This messes up the generated config files as the
> include dir is computed relative to the staged cmake config file. Just
> removing this bit makes the stage-includedir correct. I don't think
> this can have an impact since no headers are installed in the staged
> install dir anyway.
> 
> > but they embed the working directory, so they need fixing either way.
> 
> While here, I stumbled accross the weird rules in boost-install.jam
> which generates those references to WRKSRC. Seems fine to drop this, as
> this is anyway broken. See second patch (boost-install.jam).
> 
> Note that I tested this with pkgsrc-2025Q3 (boot-1.87.0) only, I don't
> have a quick access to pkgsrc-current. I guess it won't be too
> different for boost-1.90.0, but tell me if you have issues testing this.

I've tried it with the sample project from
https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/issues/167 and the reported path is
now fine, and also the workdir reference is gone from the installed
files.

So I've committed the patches. Thank you!

Could I also interest you in moving the cmake files for the headers
from boost-headers into that package? :-)
 Thomas