Re: [jamboost] <lib> broken?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-15 22:16:50

Without too much deep thought, that sounds correct to me.

-Dave

BTW, everybody, I'll be travelling to LA tomorrow and will be there
through the 23rd. I'll try to stay connected, but you never know what
kind of networking capability you'll have...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [jamboost] <lib> broken?

> On 2002-03-15 at 09:47 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams)
wrote:
>
> >No, the bug is that somebody broke something!
> >
> >The original behavior of boost.build was to load any
not-completely-read
> >Jamfiles of dependencies with main target generation disabled so that
it
> >could collect the dependency info. That means that you can define lib
> >dependencies after their dependents in the same jamfile -- it would
> >re-include the jamfile to gather up the dependencies, then continue
> >generating main targets.
>
> Aha, didn't know that :-) I think the problem then is the guards
against
> multiple inclusion of Jamfiles is preventing that behaviour now. It
still
> includes dependendent Jamfiles, but it also prevents self inclusion.
So if I
> change those checks to allow self inclusion only it would bring back
that
> behaviour. Would that be the expected?
>
>
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