AMDG

On 12/20/2013 08:03 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj@gmail.com>wrote:
>

>> On 12/20/2013 07:10 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
>>>

>>>      [ run /boost/tools/inspect//inspect/<variant>release
>>>        : .. -text -brief # command line
>>
>> You just need to root .. by using path-constant.
>>
>
> Sorry, that's way above my bjam skill level. And since use of inspect in
> this context is almost always going to need command line arguments, the ..
> doesn't appear to be a problem.
>

What I mean is that passing a literal .. won't work
when bjam is run from a different directory
(status/ for instance).

path-constant parent : .. ;
# ...
run ... : $(parent) -text -brief ;