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Bug? (was: scanners)
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2006-11-25 18:54:04
On Monday 20 November 2006 18:58, David Abrahams wrote:
> David Abrahams <daveboost-consulting.com>
writes:
> > David Abrahams <daveboost-consulting.com>
writes:
> >> I'm having trouble making the docutils scanner
work.  It isn't
> >> establishing the dependencies I expect.  One
problem, clearly, is that
> >> I have the wrong regexp syntax.  It doesn't
support "w" and that
> >> doesn't mean what I thought (whitespace) in
most regex languages.
> >> However, when I fix the syntax, I still don't
get the dependency
> >> relationships I need.  Which directory does it
search for the
> >> specified files when I use common-scanner?
> >
> > I just located at least one problem: my scanner
patterns, which end
> > with (.*), are matching the final newline,
>
> Doesn't anyone think this is a bug, either in
Boost.Build or in bjam?

Smells like a bug -- but I never understood what specific
flavour of regex 
bjam implements. Can you file a bug?

Thanks,
Volodya
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