Broken? lib bar : : ...

On Thursday 09 February 2006 17:30, Mark Evans wrote:
> I ran into a problem using the <file> feature for
indicating a prebuilt
> library file.  After building a variant of lib bar of
> examples/libraries/util/foo/Jamfile, I changed the
Jamfile as follows just
> to demonstrate the problem:
>
> #lib bar : bar.cpp ;
> lib bar : : <file>bin/hptnsr3d/libbar.so ;
>
> The indicated file is the result of a build before
changing Jamfile.  With
> the change to Jamfile, I get the following error trace:
>
>
/cygdrive/c/mse/proj/boost-build/build/generators.jam:918:
in ensure-type
> from module generators error: target {
bin/hptnsr3d/libbar.so. } has no

That's because tools/types/lib.jam does not mark '.so' as
a library suffix on 
NT.

But it also has nothing to make V2 *produce* .so files. Are
you sure that .so 
file is produced? Can you check what's the output of:

   $ bjam -f-
   ECHO $(OS) ;

is?

- Volodya
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