Re: [Boost-build] .rc files cause problem for darwin toolset

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] .rc files cause problem for darwin toolset
From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-03 08:48:42

Hi Volodya !

On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 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 :-)

Then that is the way to go ;-) I wonder why we ended up with a "dummy" 
generator ...
I can test patches on Linux, mingw, msvc  and mingw-cross, if you need 
help ;-))

Yours,

Jürgen
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