[build2] What does these means? exe{*} lib{*}

Klaim - Joël Lamotte mjklaim at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 21:42:29 UTC 2018


On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 18:51, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:
>
> Klaim - Joėl Lamotte <mjklaim at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Questions:
> >
> >  0. Is this all a bug with name globing of non-file targets?
>
> Yes, naturally, name patterns cannot be used for non-file prerequisites.
>
>
> >  1. Would it make sense to make globing syntax an error for targets
> > that are not file targets?
>
> Yes, I will look into your examples once I am back from CppCon and
> we will add the diagnostics.
>

Did you manage to take a look? I'm suspecting you are also at San
Diego so maybe it will have to wait.

Joël



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