Re: [Boost-build] Adding custom name decoration to libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Adding custom name decoration to libraries
From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-01 04:42:04

Hi Braden,

On Thursday, 1. December 2011 06:46:46 Braden Northington McDaniel wrote:
> I'm trying to add some custom name decoration to Boost library names.  This
> was working using a previous version of Boost with this sort of
> modification in the boostcpp.tag rule:
> 
>     else if $(layout) = system
>     {
>         result = [ common.format-name
>             <base> -$(MY_DECORATION)
>             -$(BUILD_ID)
> 
>             : $(name) : $(type) : $(property-set) ] ;
> 
>     }
> 
> However, it's not working with 1.48.0.  I've been staring at this code as
> well as common.format-name; but much of Jam syntax remains mysterious to me
> and I'm not sure why my addition isn't being picked up the way it used to
> be.
> 
> Can someone tell me why this doesn't work?  Or perhaps there's a better way
> of accomplishing what I want?  (Succinctly, I'd like to avoid entirely
> Boost's own name decoration and substitute my own pulled from environment
> variables.)

You may need to import your environment variables now.

For HOME this is:

import os ;
local HOME  = [ os.environ HOME ] ;
echo home $(HOME) ;

Hope this helps.

Yours,

Jürgen
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