Re: foo.exe depends on itself

--- Danny Dulai <nirva <at> ishiboo.com> wrote:
> SubDir TOP ;
> SubInclude TOP foo ;
> ----------------------------------------
> SubDir TOP foo ;
> Main foo : foo.c ;
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> The above two Jamfiles will cause the same error you witnessed, right?

Not for me they don't:
$ cat Jamfile
SubDir TOP ;
SubInclude TOP foo ;
$ cat foo/Jamfile
SubDir TOP foo ; 
Main foo : foo.c ;
$ jam
...found 17 target(s)...
...updating 2 target(s)...
Cc /temp/foo/foo.o
Link /temp/foo/foo
Chmod /temp/foo/foo
...updated 2 target(s)...

I've tried everything I could think of, including pseudo-targets named
"foo", having explicit dependencies of "foo" to "foo.exe", having the
target "foo" build into TOP/foo/bin, etc., and I can't reproduce what you
guys (I think it's up to 3 now, right?) have seen happen. I can't remember
ever having seen Jam confuse directories and files, and since I can't get