Re: [jamboost] Re: Calling perforce to synchronizing files before compiling

From: Zbynek Winkler (zw-bjam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 05:42:08

Toon Knapen wrote:

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>TEMPLIE Cédric wrote:
>| I just want to know if it is possible to do a system call ( in my case
>| this is a perforce sync) before compiling files...
>|
>| ie:
>|
>| exe toto : toto.cpp ;
>|
>| before creating toto I want to do a perforce sync on toto.cpp
>| This is my problem.
>|
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>No, bjamv2 IMO is not able to perform a user-defined system-call. BTW,
>how would you implement that in a portable way.
>
>BTW, you are trying to mix revision control with build system. This is
>interesting but AFAICT there are no (open-source) tools available that
>do this yet. 
>
That is IMHO not true. Take a look at http://www.a-a-p.org/index.html

>But it is definitly an interesting topic.
> 
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I agree.

Zbynek

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