Re: [Boost-build] Testing installed components

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-07 07:19:28

On Monday 06 February 2006 17:46, Phillip Seaver wrote:
> How hard would it be to automatically create a Jamfile to be installed
> along with the libraries?  

It will be rather tricky. Imagine you build/install a project twice, with 
different properties. Then, you'd need to load the previous installed 
Jamfile, add new declarations to it, and write it again. And you should take 
care not to write the same declaration twice, if case you build/install twice 
with the same properties.

It's doable, but not very easy, and the structure of file must be fixed.

> That could also help with the problem of some 
> libraries having usage requirements (in the case of boost libs and in
> the more general case of building and installing libraries with bbv2).

Alternatively, each installed library libfoo.so can be accompanied by
libfoo.so.usage-requirements, and whatever Jamroot responsible for globbing 
and declaring prebuilt targets can glob for those files as well. Though it 
would require "read a file" builtin in jam, unless we have one.

- Volodya