Re: [jamboost] stage rule : absolute path

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-09 11:03:54

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 16:44, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hi Toon,
> 
> Toon Knapen wrote:
> > I would like to use the stage rule to install a library
> > in a specific place. But the stage rule is always relative to
> > the directory of where the Jamfile is located. Is there any
> > way to be able to specify an absolute target directory
> > (using an env.var.) ?
> 
> In V1 --- I don't know any way, unfortunately.
> In V2 --- sure, I do that all the time:
> 
> stage a : lib1 lib2 : <location>/tmp/dir ;
> 
> I'm not sure this answer helps to solve your immediate problem, but at least 
> you know it will be solved in future ;-)
that's OK.

For the moment, I just modified the definition of the stage rule in my 
local boost but I want to achieve the same thing in a clean stock-boost
supported way. Knowing that I can do it in a clean way with the next generation
bjam suffices. Thanks for your great work !

t