Re: [jamboost] bjam ...skipped message path formats

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-29 19:46:25

At 05:17 PM 12/29/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

>> Would it be possible (with a reasonable amount of effort) to change the 

>> output to include the "\bin"?
>
>It's possible to stick \bin in there somewhere, but I'm not sure I
>could do better than guessing at what you want. It's a mistake to
>think of those as paths. Notice the exclamation points. That's grist
>used to uniquely identify targets which may have the same name, and
>there's no guarantee that it will correspond to a real path for all
>targets. Looking at the examples above and the current boost tree,
>I'd say that if you add "\bin" before the first "\" character, you'd
>get something reasonable in each case.

That seems to be work reasonably well and is covering more use cases than 
my original code which only worked for the status/Jamfile case.

Thanks,

--Beman