Re: [Boost-build] Rules for .y and .C files

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-10 17:02:03

Khassapov, Alex wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I'm new to bjam, so need some help!
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> I have files in the project with .y and .C (capital C) extensions and
> when I try to do the build, I get the errors like this:
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> error: target { date_text2triple.y. } has no type

You need to enable bison support, by adding

  using bison ;

to your user-config.jam.

> What I don't understand - looking at Jambase, the rule Object should
> handle both file types automatically.
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> I also added printouts in all rules in Jambase and found that only a few
> rules are used  (i.e. boost-build and
> 
> find-to-root), but the rest isn't.

Right, most of them were used in Classic Jam, but when you're using
Boost.Build, they are not used.

- Volodya