Re: [Boost-build] project <tag> requires qualified name?

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-19 04:55:06

Johan Nilsson wrote:
> Daniel Schlyder wrote:

[snip]

>>
>> Thanks! That's very interesting, but I can't do this, cause I have a
>> utility.jam that would clash with the built-in module of the same
>> name.
>> I could, of course, rename that module, but then I might just have to
>> do
>> it again in the future. Does BB have something akin to Python's
>> packages?
>
> Sorry, don't know Python.
>
> Anyway, adding a common prefix to your modules might make sense as a
> crude way of getting away without support for nested modules (which I 
> think
> is unavailable).
>
>>
>> Anyway, it doesn't solve the real issue, which is that I previously
>> didn't have to qualify rule name passed to <tag>, but I now have to,
>> if
>> the rule is defined in another module
>
> Can you try to import the rule into the global module?
>
> IMPORT $(__name__) : my-tag : : my-global-tag-alias ;

Sorry, that should be:

IMPORT tag : my-tag : : my-global-tag-alias ;

(copy-and-paste syndrome).

// Johan