Project-specific rules howto?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-14 11:43:14

In the project I posted recently, I needed some project-specific build
rules. Or at least, I'm not ready to declare the rules general enough
to use anywhere else yet. So I needed to make a module in the same
directory as my project root. This is what I came up with:

import modules ;

# find out where we are
.my-dir = [ modules.binding $(__name__) ] ;

# Add that location to the BOOST_BUILD_PATH
modules.poke : BOOST_BUILD_PATH
: $(.my-dir:D)
[ modules.peek : BOOST_BUILD_PATH ] ;

Is that really the best we can do? Seems like an awful mess to me, and
ordinary users are unlikely to come up with anything like it. Thoughts?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com