Re: [Boost-build] type.set-generated-target-prefix with empty string does not work to remove prefix

From: Jordan Rosenthal (jr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 08:26:33

This indeed fixed the problem.  Thanks for the help.

Jordan

Vladimir Prus wrote:

>On Friday 31 March 2006 17:50, Jordan Rosenthal wrote:
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>>I'm trying to work with a custom generator on a linux system and
>>recently upgraded my boost-build v2 from an older version to a cvs
>>version from about a week ago.  (I obtained the cvs version by clicking
>>on the nightly build link on the boost-build v2 home page if that matters).
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>>The custom generator I have is based on SHARED_LIB and it seems that one
>>of the newer things implemented in boost-build is that, on unix systems,
>>a "lib" prefix is added to all such libraries.  I understand the
>>rationale for that, but for my application, the prefix does not make
>>sense.  After poking around in type.jam I found the
>>type.set-generated-target-prefix command.  The comments before this
>>function imply that I can use an empty string to effectively remove the
>>prefix.  However, it does not work for me.  Is this a bug or is the
>>comment out-dated?
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>Hi Jordan,
>this is a bug. The adding of 'lib' prefix was added before 
>'set-target-generated-target-prefix' and used a different code path. I've 
>just comitted a change that fixes that, try getting nightly build again.
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>- Volodya
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