Re: [jamboost] Re: [bbv2] How do I get full path to a target?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-22 06:57:03

On Friday 18 March 2005 04:30, Joao Abecasis wrote:
> Joao Abecasis wrote:
> > The problem I have now is that I must get the full path to the generated
> > executable, in order to invoke it. Right now, the following is working
> > for me:
> >
> > quickbook-binary = [ path.join
> > [ $(target).path ]
> > [ $(target).name ]
> > ]
> > ;
>
> Looks like this is missing at least a [ path.native ... ] wrapper.

Yea, if you want to pass that to native commands.

> Anyway, my original question was motivated by a comment stating the path
> rule is private. On second reading it seems it is marked as "private"
> only in the "abstract base class" virtual-target.

It was inteded to be private, but there are some places where the path is 
really needed, and there's no way around that. So using .path is OK.

- Volodya