Creating a Toolset with an OBJ target (BBv2)

From: Jordan Rosenthal (jr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-04 10:12:06

Hi,

I'm trying to create a toolset. I would like the toolset to be able to 
create an object file in the current project's root out of a file that 
exists somewhere else on the system.

So I put the following in mytoolset.jam file (along with a bunch of 
other stuff which I'm omitting for brevity):

obj myobj : /somepath/to/target.c ;
rule myrule ( target : sources + )
{
myexe $(<) : $(>) /myproj//myobj : $(other_stuff) ;
}

I have a directory structure like:

/pth/to/toplevel/
project-root.jam
mytoolset.jam
Jamfile.jam
/pth/to/toplevel/subproj
Jamfile
file1.c
file2.c

The project-root.jam "includes" the toolset with the command:

using mytoolset ;

The subproject then tries to use the rule myrule. What I want to happen 
is for myobj.o to be placed in /pth/to/toplevel/gcc/debug/<etc>/.

What I get is:

MkDir1 "/gcc
mkdir: cannot create directory '/gcc'

It seems as if it is trying to put the object at the root of my 
filesystem instead of the root of my project.

How can I fix this? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Jordan