[build2] Wildcards and pattern exclusion

[Moldmann Max (DC-MA/ENG52-NA)]

Hi Boris,

exe{main}: {h c}{** -Template*}

did it for me now, cause the files all match this pattern.
But it still would be nice if I could exclude all files below a certain path as the pattern you suggested didn't work (same error message as before): 

exe{main}: {h c}{** -Templates/*}

One remark:
Build2 doesn't seem to produce exit codes >0 for a failed build which would be nice when included in scripts.

Concluding I can state Build2 is MUCH faster than my old parallel make build! Awesome work!!!

Max


-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Kolpackov [mailto:boris at codesynthesis.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 5:38 AM
To: Moldmann Max (DC-MA/ENG52-NA) <Max.Moldmann at boschrexroth-us.com>
Cc: users at build2.org
Subject: Re: [build2] Wildcards and pattern exclusion

Hi Max,

Moldmann Max (DC-MA/ENG52-NA) <Max.Moldmann at boschrexroth-us.com> writes:

> exe{main}: {h c}{** -Templates}
> 
> But build2 doesn't exclude the Templates dir

Because 'Templates' is not a directory ('Templates/' is). But you also cannot exclude directories from file matches (see the docs for details).
The way to accomplish what you want would be:

exe{main}: {h c}{** -Templates/*}

Boris