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

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-30 08:38:20

Daniel Schlyder wrote:
> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>>> Daniel Schlyder wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>
> Hmm, yeah. I guess I could do that.
>
>>>> 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 tag : my-tag : : my-global-tag-alias ;
>
> I get the following error:
>
> IMPORT error: rule "my-tag" unknown in module "vendor/bbext/tag."
>
>
> import vendor/bbext/tag : my-tag : my-global-tag-alias ;
>
> works, though, but I can't use my-global-tag-alias without
> qualification
> as argument to <tag>.

IMPORT and import are different rules. The former is a built-in, while the 
latter is not.

Note the blank between two ':'s in the IMPORT statement I wrote above. That 
argument refers to the target module for the import, which, when left empty, 
refers to the global module.

Try to rename your module to e.g. vendor-bbext-tag.jam and add its path to 
BOOST_BUILD_PATH, then do:

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

/ Johan