Re: [Boost-build] installing generated sources

From: Fabien Chêne (fabien.chene_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-17 08:32:32

Phillip Seaver <phil_at_[hidden]> writes:

[...]
>>> The only thing that comes to mind immediately is that you're running 
>>> "bjam dist" which would not do "dist-cpp" and "dist-hpp".  You might be 
>>> able to add "dist-cpp" and "dist-hpp" as dependencies of "dist" like:
>>>
>>> install dist : toto dist-hpp dist-cpp
>>>     : <install-dependencies>on <install-type>LIB <location>lib ;
>>>     
>>
>> I try that, but again, it doesn't work :-(
>> Again, it only installs the library.
>>
>> Please tells me if bjam -n -d[1-13] commands can help, I can post
>> their outputs.
>>
>>   
>>> I'll look at it tonight when I have more free time, if that doesn't work 
>>> for you.  I've done something similar in the past, so I think it's able 
>>> to be done.
>>>     
>>
>> Glad to see that there's an issue ! Thanks.
>
> I was hoping I could see something obvious that I missed when I had a
> chance to play with it, but I'm not sure why it's not working.  It might
> be because the cpp file is an intermediate target rather than a
> top-level target, but I don't know enough about the internals to figure
> it out.

Seems to me that you're wright. I try to add a top-level target
foo.cpp, which depends on foo.hpp. Then, I think foo.hpp is treated as
an intermediate target. The result is that foo.cpp is installed in
./src, but foo.hpp is not installed in ./include. 
I would be strongly interested in a response from a bbv2 developper if
there's an issue, if it is intended (not) to work, if something is missing,
if it will work in a near future, etc. 

> By the way, I'm not one of the developers, I'm just someone who uses
> it a lot.  :-)

I'm just someone trapped in my old style classic jam rules, and I
despair to be able to move to bbv2 with much simpler and powerful
rules. 

Phillip, your answers were helpful, thanks.

-- 
Fab