That was an old hack which was only needed in one context -- when we
passed both Jamroot and jamroot as patterns, got back Jamroot and jamroot
(because windows is case-insensitive and reports that both exist), and get
confused.
Calling 'unique' does not harm in most cases, but in Boost Jamfiles we glob
for all headers, and O(n^2) algorithm used by unique considerably slows us.
[SVN r29187]
That was an old hack which was only needed in one context -- when we
passed both Jamroot and jamroot as patterns, got back Jamroot and jamroot
(because windows is case-insensitive and reports that both exist), and get
confused.
Calling 'unique' does not harm in most cases, but in Boost Jamfiles we glob
for all headers, and O(n^2) algorithm used by unique considerably slows us.
[SVN r29187]
The problem with the previous implementation is that it would iterate
over all elements in a dir even if 'pattern' had no metacharacters. First,
that was slow -- if you handed
/cygdrive/w/My Documents/boost/test/a.cpp
to it, it would crawl all the way to the top, listing each directory and
checking each file. Second, it would fail, because Cygwin is broken and
does not show 'cygdrive' is the list of directory elements of '/'.
Now we check if a pattern has metacharacters, and if not, just do
a simple 'timestamp' call.
The new glob is implemented as new 'GLOB-RECURSIVELY' builtin. I've decided
to use builtin since otherwise, we'd need 'does this name exist' builtin,
and if we need new builtin, why don't implement all globbing in core.
[SVN r29163]
The problem with the previous implementation is that it would iterate
over all elements in a dir even if 'pattern' had no metacharacters. First,
that was slow -- if you handed
/cygdrive/w/My Documents/boost/test/a.cpp
to it, it would crawl all the way to the top, listing each directory and
checking each file. Second, it would fail, because Cygwin is broken and
does not show 'cygdrive' is the list of directory elements of '/'.
Now we check if a pattern has metacharacters, and if not, just do
a simple 'timestamp' call.
The new glob is implemented as new 'GLOB-RECURSIVELY' builtin. I've decided
to use builtin since otherwise, we'd need 'does this name exist' builtin,
and if we need new builtin, why don't implement all globbing in core.
[SVN r29163]
* Build bjam only by default, instead of all the other misc binaries.
* Implement disabling of splitting of imported variables. Not enable yet.
* Fix 7zip archiver search to work with newest 7z version.
[SVN r28541]
