Re: [Boost-build] bcp rule

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bcp rule
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-22 04:24:06

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 Matthew Chambers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In additional to tarball capability, I'd like the ability to build and 
> run bcp by calling a rule with a list of targets and/or files to scan 
> for boost dependencies and a destination path for the dependencies to be 
> copied to. A calling syntax as simple as:
> [ bcp
>     : # sources
>          some-lib-target
>          some-exe-target
>          /path/to/some-file.cpp
>     : # requirements
>          <location>/path/in/which/to/put/dependencies
> ] ;
> would be excellent. This capability would synergize with a tarball rule 
> like mine or John Bito's suggestion.
> 
> Since bcp is simple to build but has some boost dependencies 
> (filesystem, regex, and prg_exec_monitor), I found it expedient to put a 
> prototype bcp rule in the boost.jam extension written by grafik:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/tools/build_extensions/ext/boost.jam
> We're already using boost.jam in our project to set up and build our 
> project's boost dependencies, and I've added support for a few extra 
> libraries as well. I just added support for the test library to get bcp 
> to build.
> 
> Has anybody else using boost-build land done something similar? Is 
> bcp.jam already out there and I missed it? If not, I figure this will be 
> a great addition to grafik's boost.jam, or possibly a corollary to it.

FWIW, speaking of Jamroot you've passed to me on IRC, where you got
"could not construct" issue. I've tracked that down to a bug
in generator logic, which specifically triggered for generators
with multiple source types one of them being EXE. I've checked in the
fix:

        https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/55712

- Volodya