Re: [Boost-build] Help with includes

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-25 15:10:50

My mistake.  Sorry.  "requirements" and "usage-requirements" are the 
attributes.

I would have thought what you had would have worked.  You should try 
what Johan suggested in his reply.

Phillip (who clearly needs more sleep and/or caffeine)

DrAnonymous wrote, on 4/25/2007 2:26 PM:
> Phillip -
>
> I tried to use buld-requirements and it gave the following error:
>
> error: Invalid project attribute 'build-requirements' specified  for 
> project at '.'
>
> I tried to search the .jam files to see if build-requirements was 
> listed, and it didn't find it.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron R>
>
>
> On 4/25/07, *Phillip Seaver* <phil_at_[hidden] <mailto:phil_at_[hidden]>> 
> wrote:
>
>     DrAnonymous wrote, on 4/25/2007 1:21 PM:
>     > I can't figure out how to alter Jamroot to include the includes
>     > directory for all the subprojects.  I tried:
>     >
>     > project myTools : requirements <source>./includes ;
>     >
>     > and
>     >
>     > project myTools : requirements <include>includes ;
>     >
>     >
>     > Neither works and the first one has an error.
>     >
>     > Can someone please help me get this working?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Aaron R>
>     >
>     > PS - Should my Jamfiles always have a project entry in them?  In the
>     > above source tree I used only a lib target in one and an exe
>     target in
>     > the other.
>
>     You probably want "project myTools : build-requirements
>     <include>includes ;".  That will affect your sub-projects' builds.
>     "requirements <include>includes" affects everything that *uses*
>     the project.
>
>     You don't have to.  Many of mine don't.  I mainly use it when I
>     want to
>     apply a build or usage requirement to all of the targets in the
>     Jamfile.
>
>     HTH,
>
>     Phillip
>