Re: [jamboost] configuring include path

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 02:17:38

Hi Toon,

> playing around some more with bjam and reading your documentation
> (again) I came up with following solution. I just want to make sure that
> this is intended behaviour (and thus to make sure that this 'trick' will
> keep working in the future)
>
> <user-config.jam>
> import project ;
> project.initialize $(__name__) ;
> project user-config ;
>
> alias mpiheaders
>
> : # sources
> : # requirements
> : # default-build
> : <include>/usr/local/mpich-1.2.5.2/include

Yes, this is intended behaviour, and will work in future.

> What I am not sure about is that the documentation of the alias rule
> does not talk about usage-requirements but I just thought it would be
> similar to the other rules. If you can confirm this it would be nice to
> complete the documentation. I can do that if you want (and you tell me 
> where exactly) ?

Thanks for the offer, but I though for this small edit I'd just tweak the docs 
myself. See the update at:

http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2.advanced.builtins.targets.html#bbv2.builtins.alias

Thanks,
Volodya