build/v2/tools/prebuilt.jam

#  Copyright (C) Vladimir Prus 2002. Permission to copy, use, modify, sell and
#  distribute this software is granted provided this copyright notice appears in
#  all copies. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied
#  warranty, and with no claim as to its suitability for any purpose.

#  This module defines a special generator, which handles targets with
#  <file> property. It allows to use prebuilt targets.

import targets ;
import class : class new ;
import property ;
import errors : error ;
import type : type ;
import regex ;
import feature ;
import generators ; 

feature.feature file : : free ;

rule prebuilt-file-generator 
{
    generator.__init__ prebuilt-file-generator : : * : <file> ;    

    rule run ( project name ? : properties * : sources * )
    {
        local name = [ feature.get-values <file> : $(properties) ] ;
        local type = [ type.type $(name:S) ] ;
        if ! $(type) 
        {
            errors.error "Unknown type for prebuilt target " $(name) in $(project) ;
        }
        
        local pl = [ project.attribute $(project) location ] ;
        local path = [ path.root [ path.native $(name:D) ] $(pl) ] ;
        
        local t = [ new file-target $(name:S=:D=) : $(type) : $(project) ] ;
        $(t).set-path $(path) ;
        # TODO: have no idea how handle this. Specifically,
        # we need to distinguish between virtual targets with different
        # properties. In this case, there are no properties, because
        # they are stored in action, and we don't have any action.
        # Therefore, we encode properties via 'extra-grist', which is ugly.
        # Maybe, we should just introduce 'do-nothing-action', which only
        # keps properties.
        $(t).extra-grist [ property.as-path $(properties) ] ;
        $(t).suffix [ MATCH .(.*) : $(name:S) ] ;
        return $(t) ;            
        
    }
}

class prebuilt-file-generator : generator ;

generators.register [ new prebuilt-file-generator ] ;