tag-feature.jam

# Copyright 2017 Rene Rivera
# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
# (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at
# https://www.bfgroup.xyz/b2/LICENSE.txt)

import feature ;

#| tag::doc[]

[[b2.builtin.features.tag]]`tag`::
Used to customize the name of the generated files. The value should have the
form:
+
----
@rulename
----
+
where _rulename_ should be a name of a rule with the following signature:
+
----
rule tag ( name : type ? : property-set )
----
+
The rule will be called for each target with the default name computed by
B2, the type of the target, and property set. The rule can either
return a string that must be used as the name of the target, or an empty
string, in which case the default name will be used.
+
Most typical use of the `tag` feature is to encode build properties, or library
version in library target names. You should take care to return non-empty
string from the tag rule only for types you care about -- otherwise, you might
end up modifying names of object files, generated header file and other targets
for which changing names does not make sense.

|# # end::doc[]

feature.feature tag
    :
    : free ;