[jamming] Best way to handle creation of an unknown number of files

[Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson]

Hi there,

Running JAM 2,5, I have a build process I want to automate that creates
an unknown number of files, then tries to compile them. To illustrate,
if I have a file foo.c:

   int func_a() {...}
   int func_b() {...}
   ...
   int func_z() {...}

And when I run "split foo.c" I get a series of files:

foo_func_a.c:
   int func_a() {...}

foo_func_b.c:
   int func_b() {...}

...

foo_func_z.c:
   int func_z() {...}

Next I want to run the JAM rules:

Cc foo_func_a.obj : foo_func_a.c ;
Cc foo_func_b.obj : foo_func_b.c ;
...
Cc foo_func_z.obj : foo_func_z.c ;

I can, I know, use GLOB to get all the .c files, but since it only runs
at start-up, my current solution is to call a second invocation of JAM
to do the compiling pass. It there any other, better way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any hints you can give me.

Ken