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Diffstat (limited to 'libbuild2/bash/utility.hxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbuild2/bash/utility.hxx | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/bash/utility.hxx b/libbuild2/bash/utility.hxx index 087fc38..e5e4377 100644 --- a/libbuild2/bash/utility.hxx +++ b/libbuild2/bash/utility.hxx @@ -11,14 +11,26 @@ namespace build2 { namespace bash { - // Strip the .bash extension from the project name. + // Return the bash{} modules installation directory under bin/. // - // Note that the result may not be a valid project name. + // Note that we used to install into bin/<project>/ but that has a good + // chance of clashing with the project's executable. Adding the .bash + // extension feels like a good idea since in our model the executables + // should not use the .bash extension (only modules) and therefore are + // unlikely to clash with this name. + // + // One drawback of this approach is that in case of a project like + // libbutl.bash we now have different module directories inside the + // project (libbutl/) and when installed (libbutl.bash/). Also, the + // installation directory will be shared with the libbutl project but + // that's probably ok (and we had the same issue before). // inline string - project_base (const project_name& pn) + modules_install_dir (const project_name& pn) { - return pn.base ("bash"); + // Strip the .bash extension if present not to duplicate it. + // + return pn.base ("bash") + ".bash"; } } } |