I've got a directory with the same name as the target to be generated in that directory. This doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

$ ls Jamfile foo/ $ ls foo Jamfile foo1.cpp foo1.h foo2.cpp foo2.h $ cat Jamfile SubDir TOP ;

SubInclude TOP foo ;

$ cat foo/Jamfile SubDir TOP foo ;

Main foo : foo1.cpp foo2.cpp ;

I get:

$ jam Jamrules: No such file or directory warning: foo depends on itself warning: foo depends on itself warning: foo depends on itself ...found 14 target(s)... ...updating 3 target(s)... C++ foo/foo1.o C++ foo/foo2.o MkDir1 foo/foo Link foo/foo /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file foo/foo: Is a directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

cc -o foo/foo foo/foo1.o foo/foo2.o

...failed Link foo/foo ... ...failed updating 1 target(s)... ...updated 2 target(s)...

$ jam clean Jamrules: No such file or directory ...found 1 target(s)... ...updating 1 target(s)... Clean clean rm: `foo/foo' is a directory

rm -f foo/foo foo/foo1.o foo/foo2.o

...failed Clean clean ... ...failed updating 1 target(s)...

The Jamrules line is harmless, I know. The question is: why the MkDir1 foo/foo? Am I allowed to do this kind of thing?

Cheers, Roger.