Re: Hitting some walls when extending v2

From: Alexey Pakhunov (alexeypa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-29 13:14:00

Zbynek Winkler wrote:
> Sure I can. It then compiles the foo/bar/somefile.ext into somefile.pdf 
> but this somefile.pdf will be in the current directory along with 
> somefile.aux, somefile.log a possibly others :(

I see no problem here.

generators.register-standard foo.step1 : FOO : BAR : <toolset>foo ;
generators.register-standard foo.step2 : BAR : PDF : <toolset>foo ;

actions step1
{
tool --step=1 $(>)
}

actions step1
{
tool --step=2 $(>)
}

pdf abc : xyz.foo ;

When you build this the following commands will be executed:

mkdir bin/debug
cd bin/debug

# This will produce xyz.bar and a lot 'junk' files in bin/debug
tool --step=1 ../../xyz.foo

# This will take xyz.bar and a lot 'junk' files from bin/debug
# and produce xyz.pdf from them
tool --step=2 xyz.bar

cd ../..

> It is because these files are generated to the current directory.

If the current directory is 'bin/debug' it is exactly the place where 
those files should be created.

> I have not found a way to generate all the files in other than current 
> directory. That is why I want to do

It seems we are talking about different current directories. What is 
yours? :-)

> in the action. Actually after a sucessfull run I want to grep 
> somefile.log for notifications about unresolved references. In that case 
> I need to run the tool again (I believe up to 3 times).

Well you always can call the same tool 3 times from single actions block.

Best regards/Venlig hilsen,
Alexey Pakhunov.