Re: [Boost-build] Testing installed components

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-10 10:05:00

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Tuesday 07 February 2006 22:59, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> > On Monday 06 February 2006 17:46, Phillip Seaver wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> INCLUDE
>
> That only works if the file has variable declaration of some kind:
>
>   usage-requirements = ................. ;
>
> It can't be just a list of properties. Maybe not so big a restriction, anyway.

No, but it *could* be a bunch of rule invocations.

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Dave Abrahams
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