Re: [Boost-build] [v2] Darwin patch for -F option to ld

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-27 10:56:48

David Abrahams wrote:
> "K. Noel Belcourt" <kbelco_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not sure when the -F framework option was introduced into the
>> darwin.jam, 
> 
> Just days ago.
> 
>> but I believe it is erroneous to pass -F to ld without an
>> argument.  
> 
> That shouldn't happen.  If it's happening; I think it's a bjam bug,

It's a bjam bug. I added a test in tools/jam/test that verifies the 
problem exists. "$(x:D)", when x doesn't have a dir, is returning an 
empty string instead of an empty list:

C:\DevRoots\Boost\boost\tools\jam\test>..\src\bin.ntx86\bjam -f test.jam
--- Testing SHELL builtin...
--- Testing W32_GETREGNAMES builtin...
--- Testing var expansion...
--- Testing var on target semantics...
--- Testing var expansion...
var_expand.jam:14: error: [FAILED] '' (==)
--- Complete: PASSED(25) *FAILED(1)*

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