From: Alex Khassapov (alex.khassapov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-26 22:17:57
David Abrahams <dave <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
> Toon Knapen <toon.knapen <at> fft.be> writes:
>
> > David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> >>>Isn't
> >>>
> >>> On Unix, "lib" prefix is prepended to names of all targets of type LIB
> >>> that don't have that prefix already.
> >>>
> >>>simple enough?
> >>
> >>
> >> It's reasonably simple until you start having to follow it by
> >> "except..." or "unless..."
> >> :)
> >
> > And it probably needs to be clarified that bbv2 does not support
> > creating libraries *without* the lib prefix anymore.
> >
> > This will bite me because I have inherited a project where libraries are
> > created (using bbv2) without the lib prefix. OK no problem so far if all
> > of a sudden all libraries have a lib prefix. But now there are other
> > tools that refer to these libraries with the name of the libraries
> > hardcoded.
>
> Here's your first customer for an "except..." clause.
>
> See?
>
Yeah, we had the same problem and had to write the <tag> rule to prevent
appending "lib"
rule tagrule ( .name : type ? : property-set )
{
#ECHO $(.name) $(type) ;
local ret = "" ;
if ( $(.name) = $(name) & $(type) = SHARED_LIB )
{
# return itga.so, get extention for SHARED_LIB
local ext = [ type.generated-target-suffix $(type) : $(property-set) ] ;
ret = $(name:S=.$(ext)) ;
}
return $(ret) ;
}