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From: John Reid (j.reid_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-26 05:25:22


I guess boost.build just isn't set up to do this sort of thing then.

Oh well,
John.

John Reid wrote:
> Suppose I have a tool that compiles files of type .g into .cpp .hpp and
> .txt files. The names of these generated files can not be determined
> from the filename of the source .g file.
>
> I can register the .g type and create a rule and an action to run the
> tool. I am having problems using custom generators to tell boost.build
> which files the tool will generate.
>
> I've looked at the documentation:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/extending/tools.html
>
> and I figured the quickest and easiest way to do this is to define
> features that are set on each .g source file and then inspect them in
> the generated-targets rule of the custom generator. Does this sound
> sensible?
>
> Given the above I've struggled to work out how to return appropriate
> values from the custom generator rule. The documentation does not seem
> to cover this at all. Could someone provide me with example code to
> extract a filename from a feature and build a suitable return value for
> the generated-targets rule from it?
>
> Thanks,
> John.
>
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