Re: [jamboost] Generators example

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-11 09:56:39

David Abrahams wrote:
> From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
> 
>>>Agh... sure! I don't have "//" in quote on Linux, but cygwin adds them.
>>>Unfortunately, I've not experience with cygwin, so I cannot fix it. Do
>>>you have any clue?
>>
>>Dave, haven't you, by change, fixed this problem? I'm going to make
>>generators test into real test, run by test_all.py, so it would be nice
>>if it worked under Cygwin too.
> 
> 
> Well, I did something, but it's not very good:
> 
> 1. Only works on my machine with an NT build of bjam under cygwin (as
> opposed to a cygwin build), because jam doesn't strip ^M from line endings
> in rule actions. We should fix this, but I didn't find an easy way. Perhaps
> the fix is in scan.c

Do you mean that jam opens file in text mode, gets extra ^M in it, fails 
to strip it, and then build actions fail? Why cygwin build behaves 
differently from NT build?

> 2. Doesn't fix the problem that Cygwin ar hangs when none of the objects
> have any useful contents

What is needed to make it happy? Dummy function? Will static dummy 
function do?

- Volodya