Re: [jamboost] Re: Passing an argument to the linker

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-06 10:46:30

Actually we had deprecated SUBST a long time ago. Not sure if a use crept
back in or whether we never weeded out all older uses.
Anyway, I'm glad to know this didn't involve core changes ;-)
-Dave

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David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [jamboost] Re: Passing an argument to the linker

> Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>
> > I have an example and it's fairly simple.
> >
> > subproject test/jam/limits ;
> > MY_A = a0 a1 a2 ; # a3 ;
> > MY_B = b0 b1 b2 ; # b3 ;
> > MY_AB = $(MY_A)$(MY_B) ;
> > MY_ABAB = $(MY_AB)$(MY_AB) ;
> > exe foo : test.c : <linkflags>"$(MY_ABAB)" ;
> >
> > This generates a command line containing a0b0a0b0 up to a2b2a2b2
> > for the linkflags.
> >
> > If you add "a3" and "b3" to the lists I get a command line which
> > contains strange garbage at the end of the link flags.
>
> Markus, I've fixed the problem. Here's a code from implementation of
builtin
> SUBST rule:
>
> # define BUFLEN 4096
> char buf[BUFLEN + 1];
> const char* in = subst->string;
>
> Guess no comments needed :-) I've changed all uses of it to the newer
MATCH
> rule. (BTW, this means we can deprecate SUBST).
> Do an cvs update and try again.
>
> Thanks,
> Volodya
>
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