From 10604d850510e46b2ee625548abe5eb9a1172a0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:39:57 +0200
Subject: Add alias{} target type, use as base for dir{}

---
 build/target.cxx | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'build/target.cxx')

diff --git a/build/target.cxx b/build/target.cxx
index 63bb2fe..f9662fa 100644
--- a/build/target.cxx
+++ b/build/target.cxx
@@ -297,9 +297,8 @@ namespace build
   static target*
   search_alias (const prerequisite_key& pk)
   {
-    // For an alias/action we don't want to silently create a target
-    // since it will do nothing and it most likely not what the author
-    // intended.
+    // For an alias we don't want to silently create a target since it
+    // will do nothing and it most likely not what the user intended.
     //
     target* t (search_existing_target (pk));
 
@@ -368,11 +367,22 @@ namespace build
     false
   };
 
+  const target_type alias::static_type
+  {
+    typeid (alias),
+    "alias",
+    &target::static_type,
+    &target_factory<alias>,
+    nullptr, // Should never need.
+    &search_alias,
+    false
+  };
+
   const target_type dir::static_type
   {
     typeid (dir),
     "dir",
-    &target::static_type,
+    &alias::static_type,
     &target_factory<dir>,
     nullptr, // Should never need.
     &search_alias,
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