Re: [jamboost] Error messages need help

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-18 07:19:42

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:

> > Well, maybe we could do something based on the fact that file names
> > are usually not allowed to contain '<' or '>' characters, but that
> > would only catch a subset of this kind of error... Hmm, right now all
> > requirements have grist, so maybe that would catch all cases of this
> > particular error.
> 
> FYI, we have this already. Go to tools/build/exaples-v2/hello, edit 
> Jamfile to contain <xxx>hello.cpp instead of hello.cpp, run bjam and 
> watch the following output:
> 
> error: gristed element in sources for ./hello

Yes, I thought we probably had that kind of check for v2. It seems as
though Beman thinks this should be fixed for v1; I'm not as sure,
though I know we could do much better than we have to date.

-Dave
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