Re: [Boost-build] Conditional, via macros, includes and dependency scanning.

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-01 11:44:47

John Maddock wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> And I guess we could also try to put something into Boost.Build for
>> handling toolset conditional includes. Perhaps allowing to add
>> something like:
>>
>> // #depends <boost/config/compiler/comeau.hpp> <toolset>como
>>
>> ?
>
> Looks cool to me, if it gets added to BB, I'm sure Boost.Config will
> follow ;-)

On second thoughts that only solves part of the problem - the compiler 
config header - I don't see any way of accurately determining the 
dependencies to the stdlib and platform config headers without tracing 
through the preprocessor logic :-(

John.