Re: [Boost-build] Patch for generate.jam to generate to be wrapped by other rules

From: Jonathan Biggar (jon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-23 13:37:28

Jonathan Biggar wrote:
> Eric Woodruff wrote:
>>
>> Can you explain why the indirect rule is needed? I was following your 
>> example to create a rule to invoke an ant script and this seemed to 
>> work for me an ant.jam:
>>
>> rule ant ( name : script : properties * )
>> {
>>     FLAGS on $(name) += [ compute-ant-flags $(name) : $(properties) ] ;
>>     generate $(name) : $(script) : $(properties) 
>> <generating-rule>@ant.do-ant ;
> 
> Hmmm.  Seems to me I tried qualifying my rule name.  But I'll give it 
> another whirl.

Nope.  Doesn't work for me.  Does your ant.jam have a project 
declaration in it?

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Jon Biggar
Floorboard Software
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