Re: [Boost-build] path of a .jam file

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-04 18:59:20

Hi Jaroslav,

On Jan 4, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Jaroslav Gresula wrote:

> is there a way a .jam file can find out its path?

I wrote a small utility to do this, but it's not currently in the  
trunk.  I've attempted to extract enough of it here to get you  
working.  Here's what you do:

(1) In the Jamfile whose path you want to know, create a local  
variable and call the path-relative-to rule.

local path-to-jamfile = [ path-relative-to ] ;

This will return the path to this Jamfile from the Jamroot (that's  
why it's a relative path).

Next you need to add the code in the attached file to boost/tools/ 
build/v2/build/project.jam around line 930 or so.

Hope that helps.

-- Noel