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

From: Douglas Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-18 11:36:32

Rene Rivera <grafik.list <at> redshift-software.com> writes:
> 
> Douglas Gregor wrote:
> > + 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.

Okay, done. Complain loudly if you want me to take another shot at it.

> 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 ]".

Yikes. This is a bit more than I can just hack in a short bit of time, given 
my lack of experience with bjam. Perhaps this should be something we do 
in BBv2 instead?

Doug