Re: [jamboost] Feature redefinition problem

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-14 09:19:53

[2003-10-14] Vladimir Prus wrote:

>Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>> >So that everybody knows: Austin has send me a testcase and it turns out
>> >there's a bug in NORMALIZE_PATH builtin. When passed
>> >
>> > ../../foo/bar
>> >
>> >it does not simplify this path, whereas it should return "." I'm about
to
>>
>> fix
>>
>> >this tomorrow.
>>
>> I don't think so... That reduction is only valid if PWD == foo/bar.
>
>Oh... right! Thanks for catching this before I've spend a lot of time on 
>fixing a non-bug. Gotta find some other way of avoiding duplicate 
>loading of Jamfile.

Look at how I fixed that in the "import" rule on boost-base.jam (and
similarly in allyourbase.jam). Basically you should normalize to an absolute
path by prepending [ PWD ]. Then you can use the full path to key that it's
loaded or not.

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