Re: [Boost-build] Extending Boost.Build for ZeroC Slice

From: Craig Bachelor (craig.bachelor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-22 18:34:24

Oh. That's a shame. I thought it might have been something like that.

What about requirement 2? All scanning must be finished before actions
are called, so how can I get the include list in the action?

On 22/10/2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Craig Bachelor wrote:
> > Requirement 1:
> > I want BB to automagically compile any slice source files #included by
> > another slice source file. To do this I need to get the list of
> > includes from the scanner and create new source targets out of these.
> > I know this must be possible, but I can't quite get it.
>
> Actually, it's not currently possible. There is a disclaimer some place
> in the bjam docs that mentions that the header inclusion dependencies
> are calculated *after* the build dependencies. I.e. they are done at
> make time, which is too late to add build targets.
>
> Hm, the closest explanation I found explains the overall bjam operation
> <http://boost.org/doc/html/jam/usage.html#jam.usage.operation>.
>
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