Re: [Boost-build] Distribution rule for source?

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-11 18:56:05

On Oct 11, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 01:23, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>
>>> and header
>>> files necessary to build a target?
>>
>> No, since header scanning is done only when building targets.
>
> Hm, it might still be possible. It would be possible to collect all  
> the
> header scans in a target variable and have that target do the copy of
> all the files in that var. It would require writing your own  
> target, and
> action to do the copy.

Okay, I think I see how this works and it seems reasonable.  If the  
user wants a distribution, the rule's action copies the source but  
doesn't build anything.  If the user doesn't ask for a distribution,  
then the rule could just forward to the standard exe and lib rules  
and build the requested targets.

> It would be tricky to get that working correctly. Although I did
> somewhat more nasty things with the first implementation of the --help
> code which shanghaied the header scanning to parse the jam files for
> help comments :-)

I wondered how that worked?  I found that documentation in my Jamroot  
was ignored so I created a Jamfile.v2, put the documentation in there  
and mysteriously, bjam picked it up and outputs it before the rest of  
the help text.

Anyway, thanks for making that work.

-- Noel