Re: [Boost-build] [git] genrating forward headers

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [git] genrating forward headers
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-24 19:28:28

AMDG

On 07/24/2013 03:47 PM, Bjørn Roald wrote:
> 
> in Jamroot we can build libraries from top level and run individual
> tests, but we are not able to run b2 in the status folder for regress
> test.  Steven suggested to use dependency, and changing the above to
> 
> alias headers : : <dependency>$(all-headers)-headers
> <dependency>numeric-$(numeric-headers)-headers : : <include>.  ;
> #explicit headers ;
> 
> That fixes the problem in the status folder, but that breaks the build
> in the top catalog.  So we are stuck and don't really know how best to
> proceed.
> 

I think I know how to fix this.  I'll try to
take a look tonight.

> I have done a little bit of testing the last few days, an ugly
> work-around that kind of works for me was to have both aliases, where I
> just renamed one to headers-a.  I think this may be tweaked to niceness
> on the front end, but probably a lot better ways ;-)
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe