Re: [Boost-build] How to set special generation requirements for generated files

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to set special generation requirements for generated files
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-22 13:56:15

AMDG

Moritz Hassert wrote:
> Something like this would be nice:
>
> #like obj rule, but resulting target is a CPP file
> cpp bison1
>    : bison1.yy
>    : <bison.prefix>pre1 ;
>
> cpp bison2
>    : bison2.yy
>    : <bison.prefix>pre2 ;
>
> lib foo
>     : somefile.cpp
>       bison1
>       bison2
>     : <define>SOME_MACRO
>      <include>some/path ;
>
> Like with the obj rule, you wouldn't specify the file suffix. That way such a 
> target is not confused with a normal cpp-file.
>   

This doesn't work?  I would have expected it to.  There should be a rule
for every file type that Boost.Build handles.

In Chirst,
Steven Watanabe