[openbeos-build-team] Re: AddResources rule
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos-build-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:28:20 EDT
>If you tell me how to check in an actions section whether a Jam
>variable is empty or not, then I can do that.
>The apparently trivial problem is trickier on a closer look (unless I
>miss something very basic). The Jam variable may be empty, contain one
>or an arbitrary number of elements. A simple test like `if [ -z $(var)
>]; then...' doesn't work very well with lists of more than one
element.
>`"$(var)"' doesn't help, since Jam expands a list always to a list --
>in this case to `"element1" "element2" ...'.
>Yep, with a `for' loop one can work around, but I personally find that
>quite ugly.
I have used quite a different method for creating AddResources that I
think might work a little better in this regard. Once I publish my
"Jamfile-engine" and get some feedback I'll see about doing similar
things in our Jamrules...
Ryan Leavengood
OpenBeOS Build Team Lead
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