Re: How to compile all *.c files in C++ mode

From: Stanislav Baranov (sbaranov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-26 16:49:18

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], "Stanislav Baranov" <sbaranov_at_c...> 
wrote:
> Do you see a cleaner solution, to somehow 
> just tell Bjam to use c++ action for *.c and be done with it?

In addition to changing *.c to use C++ action, I also need to support 
*.C (uppercase) type, which is not in boost_1_31_0's build. I guess a 
clean way of solving this would be to do something like this in my 
project-root.jam:

type.register CPP : c C ;

Unfortunately this generates error:
error: Type CPP is already registered.

In theory, would it make sense to have a call that extends an already 
defined type and re-register extensions that were previously used in 
other types?

(For now I had to go and edit builtin.jam to change that.)

Stanislav