[jamming] .obj output dir

[Paul Forgey]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:10 PM, Marco Pappalardo wrote:

> 've tried LOCATE_TARGET and ALL_LOCATE_TARGET, and although 
> ALL_LOCATE_TARGET does relocate the exe, the obj are still generated 
> in the same dir as the sources. My question is what is the standard 
> way to tell Jam to output the .obj to a certain dir ? (if there is 
> any)

LOCATE_TARGET should do it.  How are you setting it?  For example, 
LOCATE_TARGET on whatever$(SUFEXE) = won't affect the intermediate 
files which built the exe.  If you have multiple subprojects, I posted 
a simple $(SUBDIRRULES) a while ago you can put in your Jamrules which 
gives you msdev-like behavior.  It sort of breaks the spirit of Jam 
(take any Jamfile project and send output anywhere without modifying 
the Jamfile), but it's probably what you want.

> Or should I just modify the c++ rule so that it /Fo's to a specific 
> dir ?

No.  The stock rules already did that for you.