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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [Boost-commit] svn:boost r75765 - trunk/tools/build/v2/engine
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-02 09:51:30


AMDG

On 12/02/2011 04:08 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
> It appears like the original problem that caused addition of
> short_path_to_long path,
> namely that user or environment can specify some paths using either
> short paths or
> using different capitalization, is still there. So, I am not sure how we
> can get
> along without normalization somewhere. and bindtarget seems like the
> only place where
> we can reasonable normalize target names. Say, if Boost.Build action
> produces parser.h
> and .cpp includes "Parser.h", this is something that should work, but
> it's only at
> engine target level, bindtarget in particular, that we can handle it. Or
> there are
> other approaches?
>

Okay, but this doesn't really work unless
it's handled in search, since Boost.Build
almost always adds grists.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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