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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] .rc files cause problem for darwin toolset
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-03 03:53:39


On Tuesday 03 March 2009 09:57:46 Juergen Hunold wrote:
> Hi Volodya,
>
> On Monday 02 March 2009, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Maybe I should just hack rc.jam to generate nothing at all, as
> > opposed to empty .obj, when no resource compiler is available?
>
> That would be the optimal solution. This is just the way qmake or cmake
> handle those files (at least on unix).
> But I thought that a generator _always_ has to produce some output ?

Yes. But this output may be just usage requirements, and no targets. And usage
requirements may be empty :-)

- Volodya


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