Re: [Boost-build] [Boost][build] Bjam ordering source $(>) list

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [Boost][build] Bjam ordering source $(>) list
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-26 16:08:37

AMDG

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
> Thanks for the push, I dug in a bit more to see how sources $(>) are 
> populated for the link action.
>
> In builtin.jam, linking-generator.generated-targets() is the place to 
> alter what ends up in $(>), and in what order.  For my problem, I 
> separated the OBJ sources from all other sources so I could place the 
> OBJ before STATIC_LIB, etc...  The fix turned out to work beautifully 
> as you can see here.
> <snip>
>
> This patch moves all objects before non-objects and retains their 
> respective relative ordering, so as not to break the dependency ordering.
>
> Anyone think this is this worth committing to Boost.Build?

Maybe you can use unix-linking-generator which also
makes sure that dependent libraries are placed in the correct order?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe