Re: [Boost-build] Traversing scanned dependencies

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Traversing scanned dependencies
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-29 06:41:33

On Saturday 29 August 2009 Matthew Chambers wrote:

> I am confused by the scanning process. It seems to happen after all 
> generators have run. I'm trying to move the bcp functionality from bcp 
> to pure jam. Currently I recurse through all the sources to find all the 
> C/CPP dependencies but I also need access to the H/HPP dependencies. How 
> can I achieve that?

Matt,

the header scanning runs after all all targets are converted into bjam
targets and passed to bjam. Unfortunately, there's no way to access
header dependencies at the target level.

- Volodya