[Boost-build] how to handle a strange generator?

From: Daniel Goertzen (daniel.goertzen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-27 09:48:17

I've got a strange one-off generator that I don't know how to deal with in
bb.  In gnu-make, it would be expressed like this:

INPUTS=x.names y.tab z.tab
OUTPUTS=a.c a.h b.c b.h

$(OUTPUTS): $(INPUTS)
        make_tables $(INPUTS)

"make_tables" is the code generator, a perl script.  The names of the output
files are hard coded into the script, and it can take a number of inputs of
various suffixes.

I tried to express it like this:

rule MT { Depends $1 : $2 ; }
actions MT
{
        make_tables $(<)
}
MT $(OUTPUTS) : $(INPUTS) ;

exe mytest : a.c ;

But it complains about not being able to find "a.c".  Perhaps I'm not
allowed to mix classic Jam with bb?  Any suggestions on how to go about
this?

Thanks,
Dan.