Re: [Boost-build] how to do symlink?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-21 01:08:39

Jorge Suit Perez Ronda wrote:
> ----
> bjam --version
> Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 10)
> Boost.Jam 03.01.10
> ----
> 
> Hello, I have a project like this
> 
>   root
>     |
>     +- dir1
>     |
>     +- dir2
>     |
>     `- inc
> 
> dir1 and dir2 contains .c source files and .h headers
> 
> I want to create rule that create symbolic links to headers files in
> dir1 and dir2 into inc (only for unix)

There's a symlink target supported in BBv2, don't how operational it is 
in BBv2M10, but it's been there a long time :-)

> I tried to do something like this:
> 
> Jamfile at root/inc:
> 
> ----
> import path ;
> 
> rule header-link ( dirs * )
> {
>   if ! $(NT)
>     {
>       for local d in $(dirs)
>         {
>           for local h in [ GLOB [ path.join $(GBLA_ROOT) $(d) ] : *.h ]
>             {
>               ECHO $(h) ;
>               # here i want to 'ln -s $(h) .' ;
>             }
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> header-link dir1 dir2 ;
> ----
> 
> project-root.jam at root :
> 
> ----
> path-constant GBLA_ROOT : . ;
> 
> import toolset : using ;
> import gcc ;
> ----
> 
> but I can not do something similar to:
> 
> ln -s $(h) .
> 
> Is there a way to do it?

Instead of all that you could, I think, do something like this:

import symlink ;
symlink : [ glob dir1/*.h dir2/*.h ] ;

In the Jamfile you need to put the symlinks in.

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