Re: [Boost-build] Path feature

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Path feature
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-22 10:26:24

AMDG

On 02/21/2016 01:30 PM, Deane Yang wrote:
> I'm confused by the following:
> 
> Suppose I declare in a *.jam file a target as follows:
> 
> type.register CS : cs ;
> type.register CSEXE : exe ;
> 
> generators.register-composing csc.make-exe : CS : CSEXE ;
> feature reference : : free path dependency ;
> flags csc.make-exe CSREFERENCE <reference> ;
> 

  I suspect that path and dependency are not
intended to be used together.  Does it work if
you just use dependency?

> actions make-exe bind CSREFERENCE
> {
>   csc -target:exe -r:$(CSREFERENCE) -out:$(<) $(>)
> }
> 
> rule link
> {
>   DEPENDS $(<) : [ on $(<) return $(CS_REFERENCE) ] ;
> }
> 
> and a Jamfile that has this:
> 
> csexe test : test.cs
>               : <reference>../distribution/shared.dll
>               ;
> 
> and I do "b2  test" inside that directory
> 
> Naively, I would think that the action would expand to
> 
> csc target:exe -r:../distribution/shared.dll ....
> 
> which is what I want.
> 
> However, what I am really getting, based on the error messages is:
> 
> csc target:exe
> -r:bin/darwin-4.2.1/release/address-model-64/threading-multi/../distribution/shared.dll
> ....
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe