Re: [jamboost] BBv2, symlink and variants...

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-19 10:13:40

Rene Rivera wrote:
> In trying to learn things, and work towards the rest of the soname/version
> implementation, I decide to implement a "symlink" target (code attached).

That's extremely cool! It's great that you've learned enought to write this
code.

> Everything works great so far, execpt for one thing... Indicating a specific
> variant doesn't work as I'd expect it. For example this:
> 
> symlink hello-link : hello/<variant>release ;
> 
> Selects "gcc/release/debug-symbols-on/optimization-off/hello", not what I
> might expect "gcc/release/hello".
> 
> Am I doing this incorrectly? 

No, you're doing this right!

> Or is that part not implemented yet?

It's supposed to be implemented. When I run

bjam -n release hello

I see "gcc/release/hello" created, so the example you give is a bug.
I'll take a look at it ASAP, but I have some terrible PhD exam tomorrow
and don't know a bit about differential equations, so might have the time
only after I pass it.

- Volodya