Re: [Boost-build] help with dependencies

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-24 11:22:33

On Thursday 24 July 2008 18:14:12 Sébastien Fortier wrote:
> I need to specify a build dependency for a library, an executable or a 
> unit test that is a plugin.
> This plugin is an .so library but I do not want it to link with the 
> target that is being built, I just want it to compile a new version if 
> there was a change. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here...
> 
> ex.:
> 
> unit-test my_tests
>     :
>       $(test_sources)
>       /base/foo//foo
>       *$(PLUGIN_LIST)* # I want this to be rebuilt if needed, but I do 
> not want it to link - in this variable are contained the target names in 
> the form /base/$(target_name)//$(target_name)
>       $(PROJECT_ROOT)//boost_thread
>       $(PROJECT_ROOT)//boost_date_time
>       $(PROJECT_ROOT)//dl
>     :
>   ;

How about:

 unit-test my_tests
     :
       $(test_sources)
       /base/foo//foo
     : <dependency>/some/project//plugin
     ;

?

>