Re: [Boost-build] Question about calling rules from within a generator

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Question about calling rules from within a generator
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-04-01 20:44:20

AMDG

On 4/1/19 2:31 PM, Thomas Brown via Boost-build wrote:
> I was trying to use the assert module to check various assumptions
> within my custom generator class when I found it is not possible to
> call those rules.  This is also true of other user-defined rules
> within the same file as the generator.  Is this expected?
> 

  You need to import them inside the class.
Rules from the outer module are not automatically
visible within the class.  A class is an independent
module that has no semantic relationship to the
context in which it is defined.

> See the attached file for a minimal example that shows the issue.  The
> project will run correctly after commenting out the call to
> `assert.true` in `g.jam`.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe