Re: [Boost-build] Specify install location in command line

From: Motonari Ito (motonarii_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-15 12:15:59

Hi Jurko,

>   Don't have the time to come up with a working example at the moment 
>but one way to do it would be to add a custom command line parameter 
>(use the MATCH to scan for it, for example see how the --built-type 
>parameter is implemented in the Boos library's Jamroot file). Note that

>then you would need to tunnel the value passed on the command line to 
>the appropriate target property.

It worked!

local install-dir = [ MATCH "^--install-dir=(.*)" : [ modules.peek :
ARGV ] ] ;
exe aaa : [ glob *.cpp ] ;
install dist : aaa : <location>$(install-dir) ;

% bjam --install-dir=foo

>   Another way would be to use Boost Build's target specific
properties.
>I believe the syntax is something like:

I could not find a way to specify target specific properties in
documentation.
http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.refe
rence.init.args

Well, anyway, my problem is solved. Thank you for your help!

> P.S.
>   Do not know the language, so I was wondernig which is the name and 
> whic is the surname ? :-)

I intentionally put the first name before the surname to adapt to
English 
culture, so Motonari is the first name. The surname generally comes
first
in Japanese language :-)