Re: [jamboost] Wrapping up new design

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-03 21:59:43

On 2002-01-03 at 04:37 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams) wrote:

>There are other reasons why it would be useful to be able to translate a
>path from relative to absolute. Maybe you should just add that capability.

Cool, then. How about adding a builtin rule "ABSOLUTE <target> ;". It just
turns on the absolute flag in the target, like NOTFILE and others do.

>I guess your idea of a BIND rule returning empty when the file isn't found
>in SEARCH or LOCATE would be best.

Totally agree with your Yucks :-)

So a "BIND <target> ;" builtin then it is.

Which means that then the following is possible:

[ if PWD is /home/user/something ]

PROJECT_CONFIG ?= project-config.jam ;
SEARCH on $(PROJECT_CONFIG) : . ;
ABSOLUTE $(PROJECT_CONFIG) ;
BIND $(PROJECT_CONFIG) ;
if $(PROJECT_CONFIG)
{
ECHO $(PROJECT_CONFIG) ;
}

Prints "/home/user/something/project-config.jam", if it's found.

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