From f745d8ba2b7d6fd6a725af5c58cd5f057fca8191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 16:02:38 +0200
Subject: Allow forcing installation of exe{} prerequisites of file targets

This can be achieved with prerequisite-specific install=true, for example:

exe{foo}: exe{bar}: install = true # foo runs bar
---
 libbuild2/install/rule.cxx | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'libbuild2/install/rule.cxx')

diff --git a/libbuild2/install/rule.cxx b/libbuild2/install/rule.cxx
index b4b4a01..2d81067 100644
--- a/libbuild2/install/rule.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/install/rule.cxx
@@ -289,7 +289,14 @@ namespace build2
             action, const target& t, const prerequisite& p) const
     {
       if (p.is_a<exe> ())
-        return nullptr;
+      {
+        // Feels like one day this should be unified with include (see
+        // context::var_include).
+        //
+        if (p.vars.empty () ||
+            cast_empty<path> (p.vars["install"]).string () != "true")
+          return nullptr;
+      }
 
       const target& pt (search (t, p));
       return is == nullptr || pt.in (*is) ? &pt : nullptr;
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