Re: [jamboost] How to define additional transformations?

From: Peter Steiner (peter.steiner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-15 16:36:06

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:40:47 +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> Almost. The first caveat is that you don't need to write a rule like
> register-c-compiler. If you want to add new transformation, you have to 
> declare new generator. The 'register-c-compiler' is just a convenience 
> wrapper which declares new generator with some predefined properties.

> The process of declaring a new generator is documented at 

> http://boost.sourceforge.net/boost-build2/doc/extending.html

> and it fact, stripping a binary is a simple transformation, so the process is 
> just as described. I attach a working example.

This approach works fine. Thanks!

> There's another solution for your problem: make the feature that determines if
> the target is stripped or not.
...
> I attach the working example of this as well. It would be interesting to know
> this approach you find better. 

I like the first approach better. The second is based on the
coincidence that stripping can as well be done while linking. But
the first approach serves as a generic step of a possible larger
sequence.

Regards, Peter
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