Re: [Boost-build] [Build] problem including jamfiles

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [Build] problem including jamfiles
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-21 21:58:20

AMDG

Lee Winter wrote:
> Given a project tree like this:
>
>     top/
>         jamfile.jam        # contains "include top.jam ;"
>         top.jam
>         sub/
>             jamfile.jam    # contains "include sub,jam ;"
>             sub,jam
>
> then in top/sub bjam complains there is no such file as top.jam.
>
> Clearly the ancestral jamfiles are being processed in the directory in
> which bjam is launched rather than in their respective directories.
>
> 1.  Is this intentional?  If so, what is the rationale?
>
> 2.  Is there a work-around such that the parental jamfile can include
> another file from its location?
>   

I really suggest using import, as it is much better behaved than include.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe