Re: [Boost-build] force install before building sub-dir

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] force install before building sub-dir
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (v_gevorg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-19 06:56:10

Andrej van der Zee wrote:

> For libraries that  works for me indeed, but for a dependency on an
> install-command I cannot get  this to work. The is the install command
> is:
> 
> install  $(INSTALL_PATH)/etc : pcap-http-cfg.xsd ;
> 
> Here pcap-http-cfg.xsd is just  a file that is copied to the install 
directory.
> 
> So what is the  "name-of-metatarget-in-that-dir" I can refer this file
> to in the  dependency?
> 
> Thank  you,
> Andrej

In that case, try this:

that-dir/Jamfile:
install  $(INSTALL_PATH)/etc : pcap-http-cfg.xsd ;
alias install-pcap-http-cfg : $(INSTALL_PATH)/etc ;

this-dir/Jamfile:
obj something : thing.cpp : <dependency>that-dir//install-pcap-http-cfg ;

HTH,
Gevorg