Re: [boost] Boost header isolation testing

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost header isolation testing
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-15 19:11:49

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 20:00, James E. King III via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> In the winapi project there's a neat little Jamfile rule that will ensure
> each public header will compile properly (i.e. it is not missing any
> #include statements).  I pulled this into uuid when I started maintaining
> it, and I find myself pulling it into another repository.

I've done similar for GIL:
https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pull/147

> It would be nice to have this as a standard Boost.Build rule that one could easily add to
> test Jamfiles.

Yes, it would be nice to have a rule that takes list of header files,
and calculates targets one per header.

I stole the target name calculation idea from Log or Test

https://github.com/boostorg/log/blob/develop/test/Jamfile.v2
https://github.com/boostorg/test/blob/develop/test/Jamfile.v2

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net