Re: [Boost-build] Difficulty with pre-built lib declaration

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Difficulty with pre-built lib declaration
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-19 15:22:33

On Friday 19 December 2008 23:00:02 Ian Emmons wrote:

> I would like to  
> define the library target this way:
> 
> path-constant BdbDir : D:/dev/KB/lib/bdb ;
> constant BdbVersion : 47 ;
> lib BerkeleyDB
>     :  # no sources
>     :  <variant>debug:<name>libdb$(BdbVersion)d
...
> However, this definition causes bjam to output the following error:
> 
> D:/bin/boost-build/kernel\class.jam:93: in new
> *** argument error
> * rule object(searched-lib-target)@196.__init__ ( name : project :  
> shared ? : search * : action )
> * called with: ( BerkeleyDB libdb47d : object(project-target)@10 :  

Hi Ian,

can you please use 'searched-lib' target type, not 'lib'? It appears
that use of <name> inside conditional requirements confuses 'lib'.

- Volodya

-- 
Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
Boost.Build V2: http://boost.org/boost-build2