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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Adding custom name decoration to libraries
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-01 15:10:51

AMDG

On 12/01/2011 11:57 AM, Braden Northington McDaniel wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Juergen Hunold wrote:
> 
>> Hi Braden,
>>
>> 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 ;
> 

In that case:

import modules ;

local MY_DECORATION =
  [ modules.peek user-config : MY_DECORATION ] ;

constants are only visible in sub-projects, so
using MY_DECORATION directly broke when boostcpp
was split off from Jamroot.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe