Re: [Boost-build] Bug?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-29 16:30:28

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Monday 20 November 2006 18:58, David Abrahams wrote:
>> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> > David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >> I'm having trouble making the docutils scanner work.  It isn't
>> >> establishing the dependencies I expect.  One problem, clearly, is that
>> >> I have the wrong regexp syntax.  It doesn't support "\w" and that
>> >> doesn't mean what I thought (whitespace) in most regex languages.
>> >> However, when I fix the syntax, I still don't get the dependency
>> >> relationships I need.  Which directory does it search for the
>> >> specified files when I use common-scanner?
>> >
>> > I just located at least one problem: my scanner patterns, which end
>> > with (.*), are matching the final newline,
>>
>> Doesn't anyone think this is a bug, either in Boost.Build or in bjam?
>
> Smells like a bug -- but I never understood what specific flavour of regex 
> bjam implements. Can you file a bug?

https://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/boost.build/ticket/115

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