Re: Dependency on headers (Was: [jamboost] The right configuration mechanism)

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-16 07:46:37

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 03:08, Andrey Melnikov wrote:
> 
> 
>>Great.
>>
>>Is it possible to specify toolsets on per-file basis? E.g.
>>
>>LIB x : x.cpp ;
>>HPP a : a.idl : <toolset>xpidl ;
>>HPP b : b.idl : <toolset>midl ;
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>Will depencency on a.idl be recognized if x.cpp includes a.h generated
>>by the IDL compiler?
> 
> 
> No. And it won't be recognized even without <toolset>, because by default, 
> dependency to generated headers are tracked only within one main target.
> 
> Some explanation is hidden under:
> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/jamfiles.html#bbv2.reference.headers
> 
Does the documentation mean that I should use

LIB x : x.cpp : <implicit-depencency>a ?

Andrey