My aim is to build a library which includes version information.
I have a script which will update ./version.cpp only if the version has changed. This to prevent unnecessary rebuilds.
I have a lib target which globs *.cpp, which is inclusive of version.cpp.
The problem is that if I run bjam I can see it execute the script, and update version.cpp, but the library is not rebuilt.
Only when I run bjam again does it see that version.cpp has changed, and rebuild the lib
This is my jam file:
Echo [ SHELL "./write_version.sh" ] ;
lib foo
: [ glob *.cc ]
;
This is the output of running bjam:
$ bjam
Updating version.cpp
...found 119 targets...
$ bjam
...found 121 targets...
...updating 3 targets...
gcc.compile.c++ ../foo/bin/gcc-4.8/debug/link-static/version.o
gcc.archive ../foo/bin/gcc-4.8/debug/link-static/libfoo.a
...updated 3 targets...
How can I get both the script and the library build working together?
TIA
Steve