Re: [jamboost] Re: lib prefix on Unix

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-16 08:45:34

David Abrahams wrote:

>>Isn't 
>>
>> On Unix, "lib" prefix is prepended to names of all targets of type LIB
>> that don't have that prefix already.
>>
>>simple enough?
> 
> 
> It's reasonably simple until you start having to follow it by
> "except..." or "unless..."
> :)

And it probably needs to be clarified that bbv2 does not support 
creating libraries *without* the lib prefix anymore.

This will bite me because I have inherited a project where libraries are 
created (using bbv2) without the lib prefix. OK no problem so far if all 
of a sudden all libraries have a lib prefix. But now there are other 
tools that refer to these libraries with the name of the libraries 
hardcoded.
OK I agree that this project is probably not organised very cleanly but 
otherwise we can also say that the flexibility of bbv2 (to adapt to this 
situation) is reduced.

toon