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author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2020-07-10 09:51:54 +0200 |
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committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2020-07-10 11:07:49 +0200 |
commit | ddc5b76007bd4524f27a7449bcd4a5e21f8d797d (patch) | |
tree | b806c70865171a1614bd6f5c8675b60d40d75fdd /libbuild2/config/utility.cxx | |
parent | b92a060879caf1de82a60ff2980f70ac165ec1a8 (diff) |
Document ad hoc import and its usage in glue buildfiles
If the target being imported has no project name and is either absolute or is
a relative directory, then this is treated as ad hoc importation. Semantically
it is similar to a normal import but with the location of the project being
imported hard-coded into the buildfile.
This type of import can be used to create a special "glue buildfile" that
"pulls" together several projects, usually for convenience of development. One
typical case that calls for such a glue buildfile is a multi-package project.
To be able to invoke the build system driver directly in the project root, we
can add a glue buildfile that imports and builds all the packages:
import pkgs = */
./: $pkgs
See "Target Importation" in the manual for details.
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