Re: [Boost-build] [docutils][quickbook] scanners

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-14 16:46:07

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I'm having trouble making the docutils scanner work.  It isn't
> establishing the dependencies I expect.  One problem, clearly, is that
> I have the wrong regexp syntax.  It doesn't support "\w" and that
> doesn't mean what I thought (whitespace) in most regex languages.
> However, when I fix the syntax, I still don't get the dependency
> relationships I need.  Which directory does it search for the
> specified files when I use common-scanner?

I just located at least one problem: my scanner patterns, which end
with (.*), are matching the final newline, so the filenames found all
have newlines in them.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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