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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 01:33:26


On Wednesday 20 October 2004 18:08, Toon Knapen wrote:

> However using a reference to the dummy library does not work because the
> library does not exist, I had only defined the target to propagate the
> includes. So instead of making my project on /user-config//boostheaders,
> I now just added /user-config in the sources and ... it works(see
> example below).
> Is this intended ?

No, not really. I'm surprised that it worked because I explicitly though about
this use case as unsupported. I'll look into it.

>
> And to use this trick for different groups of include libraries, could I
> define multiple projects in my user-config.jam? I guess not but wanted
> to ask to make sure.

Right, you cannot call 'initialize' twice on the name module. The following
might work:

module user-config2 { }
project.initialize user-config2 ;
module user-config2 {
project user-config2 ......
}

- Volodya

 


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