Re: [Boost-build] Adding custom name decoration to libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Adding custom name decoration to libraries
From: Braden Northington McDaniel (braden_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-01 16:57:24

On Dec 1, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> On 12/01/2011 11:57 AM, Braden Northington McDaniel wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Juergen Hunold wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Braden,
>>> 
>>> You may need to import your environment variables now.
>>> 
>>> For HOME this is:
>>> 
>>> import os ;
>>> local HOME  = [ os.environ HOME ] ;
>>> echo home $(HOME) ;
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, but unfortunately I misspoke.  MY_DECORATION is not an environment variable; it's a constant defined in user-config.jam:
>> 
>>  constant MY_DECORATION : foo ;
> 
> In that case:
> 
> import modules ;
> 
> local MY_DECORATION =
>  [ modules.peek user-config : MY_DECORATION ] ;
> 
> constants are only visible in sub-projects, so
> using MY_DECORATION directly broke when boostcpp
> was split off from Jamroot.

That was it.  Thank you!

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Braden McDaniel
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