Re: [Boost-build] Traversing scanned dependencies

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Traversing scanned dependencies
From: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-31 10:58:06

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 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.
Can this capability be added in the future? It would allow for bcp-like 
functionality for any BB project and the special handling caused by the 
lack of preprocessing can be handled by the implicit dependencies. 
Albeit few projects have enough headers to make subsetting them 
worthwhile. Using bcp we were able to reduce our boost dependency from 
the full 30mb tarball to a 3mb tarball (stripping docs and tests).

-Matt