Re: [Boost-build] Newbie: few questions

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Newbie: few questions
From: Thomas Lehmann (t.lehmann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-13 02:06:04

A)
The CXX problem is not solved that way:
type.register CXX : cxx : CPP ;
error: Attempting to specify type for suffix "cxx"
error: Old type CPP, New type CXX

B)
The header generation still does not work. I have a lib target and
inside a dummy.err. From this a dummyerrors.h should be generated. The
documentation (link) is working with a lib AND a exe target using this
specifier ...

I have:

lib dummy
    : dummyerrors.err
    : <link>static
      <implicit-dependency>dummyerrors.err
    ;

BJam is not yelling but also it is not doing the job...
Also it is not very nice to write dummyerrors.err two times as here...
Can somebody help, please?

sincerely
Thomas

Juraj Ivančić schrieb:
> Thomas Lehmann wrote:
> > Again about Example: 1-to-1 generator.
> > When trying to use this like here...
> >
> > type.register ERR : err ;
> > generators.register-standard err.convert : ERR : H ;
> >
> > ... then the output is "...found 1 target..." and the defined action 
> > will be not executed.
> > Changing it to...
> >
> > generators.register-standard err.convert : ERR : CPP ;
> >
> >
> > the action will be called. How do I use this for headers?
> >
> >   
>
> See
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/html/bbv2/reference/generated_headers.html
>
> > My script (inside of actions) does accept two parameters (input and output);
> > so I use $(>) and $(<). How can I access part of the file (path, 
> > filename, extension)?
> > Why? The script could do it by I intent to do something like 
> > --name=$(>).name
> > (filename.ext -> filename) But here I get filename.ext.name!
> >   
>
> See
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/jam/jam/language.html
> Section VARIABLES.
>
> E. g.
>
> $(1:P) for parent directory
> $(1:BS) for filename + extension
>
> > Final:
> > What do I have to do for using CXX instead of CPP. Registering as a type
> > like above didn't work.
> >   
>
> Try this:
>
> type.register CXX : cxx : CPP ;
>
> The last parameter is optional and denotes 'base-type'.
> Although I think that boost build does this somewhere for you.
>
>
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