Re: [jamboost] [PATCH]: Add --show-libraries to top-level Jamfile

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-07 16:28:17

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> I'd like to commit this patch to the top-level Boost Jamfile. I'm 
> using this --show-libraries option in my current attempt to add a 
> Unix-friendly configure hackery. Okay to commit?

No...

> + libraries = [ MATCH ^.*libs/([^/]*)/build/Jamfile$ : $(library- 
> jamfiles) ] ;

That's not going to work on non-Unix filesystems. I know you are only 
doing this for Unix use but consistency of interface is important :-) 
You need to make it handle the "\" path separators at least. But ideally 
you should change boost-base.jam to save the names of all the libraries 
so that you can read that list after the install-subinclude call. It 
already does something like that for what "[ install-sources lib ]" 
returns. So you could add an "[ install-names lib ]".

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