Re: [jamboost] Library changes

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-14 03:25:19

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> I've just made a final (I hope) tweak to the "lib" rule. Now it's possible to 
> do
> 
> lib png : z : <name>png ;
> lib z : : <name>z ;
> 
> or 
> 
> lib png : z : <file>png.a ;
> lib z : : <file>z.a ;
> 
> and if you link to 'png', the 'z' library will be picked up too. Previously, 
> this required non-intuitive syntax.
> 
> At the same time, the prebuilt.jam module which used to implement <file> was 
> removed. The <file> feature now works only for "lib" targets, and you should 
> use "alias" in other cases

What if one uses <file> and <name>? Would'nt it be more consistent to 
have <path> and <name>. This way there is no overlap between the two 
properties. The <path> only needs to be used if the library is not in 
the default path and than will be passed as a -L option.

> 
> Finally, I've expanded the documentation on libraries (and other builtin 
> rules):
> 
> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2.advanced.builtins.targets.html

In the first example on that page:

<quote>
exe hello : hello.cpp some_library.lib /some_project//library
: <threading>multi
;
<unqoute>

using 'some_library.lib' suggest to me that for library dependencies, 
one needs to specify the real name of the library (with the file-name 
extension which is '.lib' on windows) instead of the target-name 
corresponding to the library.

Anyway the documentation is really improving!!! Keep up the good work!!!