Re: How to define a main target, other questions

From: Christopher Currie (Christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-06 16:03:02

> 1. I need to write two additional main targets:
> - doxygen target that generates the doxygen docs.
> - a lint main target, that runs lint, transforms the lint 
> output using xslt and stores the results in a didicated
> directory outside of the source tree.
> 
> Are there any tutorials available for these tasks or some
> easy example files? I found one that describes how to add
> a generator, but I guess creating another main target
> is more work and involves the use of jam classes?

Nothing exists yet; I've recently been working out how to do that 
myself, so when I'm done I'll try and write up a quick tutorial (of 
course, the recent changes in CVS may have made my work obsolete, so it 
may take me a few days to get it right).

> 2. Are there commands or variables that return the current directory
> and the base directofy of the source tree (where 
> project-root.jam" is located?

You can use the pwd rule for the first:

rule myrule
{
local mypwd = [ pwd ] ;
}

See new/path.jam. For the second, from what I can see, you can call 
get-location on the project root.

rule myrule
{
local rootdir = [ project-root get-location ];
}

See new/project-root.jam.