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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Adding custom name decoration to libraries
From: Braden Northington McDaniel (braden_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-01 14:57:21

On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Juergen Hunold wrote:

> 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) ;

Thanks, but unfortunately I misspoke.  MY_DECORATION is not an environment variable; it's a constant defined in user-config.jam:

  constant MY_DECORATION : foo ;

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Braden McDaniel
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