[Boost-build] process_jam_log & boost build

Subject: [Boost-build] process_jam_log & boost build
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-30 16:57:45

I'm working on using the boost_build/process_jam_log/library_test 
combination to build/test libraries outside of the boost tree.  It seems I 
can "almost" get there.  The current status of this effort can be found at 
www.blincubator.com -- simple tools / build_test - scroll to the end.

But in making tweaks to process_jam_log I'm wondering about the the 
following.

As I understand it, process_jam_log scrapes the bjam.log file and addes 
test???.xml files to each leaf in the directory bin/test/...

My question is: Is there any reason that this wasn't or can't be just added 
to the bjam scripting files themselves?  That is if I use the bjam script 
"target"? run - can't that just be altered to create the test???.xml file at 
the same time it creates everything else?  This would eliminate the somewhat 
kludgy/hacky process_jam_log and seemingly make things a lot simpler.

Robert Ramey