I'm trying to use the Boost Copy (BCP) utility to pull the normal_distribution class out of Boost. However, when I do bcp normal_distribution ./my_normal_distribution_dir, nothing appears in the my_normal_distribution_dir directory.
Here's some more detailed background on the environment that I'm doing this in:
On Mac OS 10.7, I downloaded the Boost 1.50 and untared source files. In the top-level Boost directory, I did ./bootstrap.sh. Then, I did ./bjam ./tools/bcp, which produced a bcp executable in the ./dist/bin directory. I created a directory called my_normal_distribution_dir. Then, I tried the following commands to extract the normal_distribution class:
./dist/bin/bcp normal_distribution ./my_normal_distribution_dir
./dist/bin/bcp --list normal_distribution --boost=./ ./my_normal_distribution_dir
./dist/bin/bcp --list normal_distribution --boost=./ output-path:./my_normal_distribution_dir
I also tried using the absolute path of my_normal_distribution_dir.
All of these give the following output:
no errors detected
However, after trying all this stuff, the my_normal_distribution_dir directory is still empty! What should I do?
Also, thanks to this thread for suggesting BCP. Once we solve the problem described above, BCP should handle my use case perfectly.