Re: [jamboost] Replacing GNU make's VPATH with bjam's SEARCH?

From: Craig Rodrigues (rodrigc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-07 10:19:33

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:45:15AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> It's util/path.jam
> If you're using anonymous CVS, there's some unspecified delay before changes 
> are pushed there. If the file contains rule call 'glob-really', it's the new 
> version.

OK, I got your patch, and it seems to fix things (unfortunately
it looks like there is a report of problems on Windows). So now
this example works (on Linux at least), where it didn't before:

exe hello : [ glob /tmp/foo1/*.cpp ] ;

I've been using this workaround which works with and without your patch:

import path ;
DIRS = /tmp/foo1
SRC = hello.cpp

SOURCE = [ path.glob $(DIRS) : $(SRC) ] ;

While this works, this is not as straightforward
as I would have liked. What exactly are
the SEARCH and SEARCH_SOURCE variables used for,
and can they not be used at all for doing VPATH-like things?

Thanks.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues 
rodrigc_at_[hidden]