Re: [Boost-build] moving rules from jamroot to somewhere else

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 06:34:48

Renaud Lepere wrote:
> I would like to put some specific rules written in my jamroot file
> somewhere else. I have put them in a file utils.jam under utils
> directory.
> 
> and in jamroot i write
> import utils/utils ;
> 
> but than i need to write "utils/utils.rulename ; " to call the rule
> in the jamroot file ; i would prefer something like "utils.rulename ;"
> or
> "rulename ;" . And more important i can not call the rule into my
> other 
> jamfiles while defining the rules in jamroot was ok.
> 
> What is the good way to factorize a set of rules ?

This might help:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/13105/focus=13113

/ Johan