Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 18:52, David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Fri Mar 02 2007, Nicola Musatti
<Nicola.Musatti-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> I'm trying to configure odbc32 as an external
library in a Jamfile. This works
>>> fine for those compilers which have it in their
default library path; for
>>> Borland I need to specify a location that is
relative to where the compiler is
>>> installed. Currently I have it hard-coded as
follows:
>>>
>>> lib odbc
>>> :
>>> : <name>odbc32
>>>
<toolset>borland:<search>"C:/Program
Files/Borland/CBuilder6/Lib/Psdk"
>>> ;
>>>
>>> However I'd like to refer to the path that's
specified in my user-config.jam
>>> file. Is that possible?
>> IIRC there's a way to get your user-config.jam to
be treated as a
>> regular Boost.Build module (but I don't remember
what it is).
>
> There's no way -- user-config.jam is already treated
exactly like
> Jamfile, and Jamroot inherit things from
user-config.jam.
>
> Therefore, adding
>
> path-constant WHATEVER : WHATEVER ;
>
> in user-config.jam will allow one to write
>
> $(WHATEVER)
>
> in all Jamfiles everywhere.
I see. I had hoped to be able to set up my library's Jamfile
so that
users wouldn't be required to add library specific
configuration to
their user-config.jam, especially since in this case the
location of
odbc32.lib is not arbitrary, but fixed relative to the
compiler's path.
Cheers,
Nicola Musatti
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