Force creation of output directory before opening depdb

3 files changed, 28 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/build2/algorithm b/build2/algorithm
index 7c9239d..06a5c01 100644
--- a/build2/algorithm
+++ b/build2/algorithm
@@ -128,12 +128,12 @@ namespace build2
   group_view
   resolve_group_members (action, target&);
 
-  // Inject dependency on the parent directory's fsdir{}, unless it is
-  // the project's out_root (or is outside of any project; say, for
-  // example, an install directory). Normally this function is called
-  // from the rule's apply() function.
+  // Inject dependency on the parent directory's fsdir{}, unless it is outside
+  // of any project (say, for example, an installation directory). Return the
+  // injected target or NULL. Normally this function is called from the rule's
+  // apply() function.
   //
-  void
+  fsdir*
   inject_parent_fsdir (action, target&);
 
   // Execute the action on target, assuming a rule has been matched
diff --git a/build2/algorithm.cxx b/build2/algorithm.cxx
index 89dd029..80325ed 100644
--- a/build2/algorithm.cxx
+++ b/build2/algorithm.cxx
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ namespace build2
     }
   }
 
-  void
+  fsdir*
   inject_parent_fsdir (action a, target& t)
   {
     tracer trace ("inject_parent_fsdir");
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ namespace build2
     scope* rs (s.root_scope ());
 
     if (rs == nullptr) // Could be outside any project.
-      return;
+      return nullptr;
 
     const dir_path& out_root (rs->out_path ());
 
@@ -318,14 +318,15 @@ namespace build2
     //
     const dir_path& d (t.name.empty () ? t.dir.directory () : t.dir);
 
-    if (!d.sub (out_root) || d == out_root)
-      return;
+    if (!d.sub (out_root))
+      return nullptr;
 
     l6 ([&]{trace << "for " << t;});
 
-    fsdir& dt (search<fsdir> (d, string (), nullptr, &s));
-    match (a, dt);
-    t.prerequisite_targets.emplace_back (&dt);
+    fsdir* r (&search<fsdir> (d, string (), nullptr, &s));
+    match (a, *r);
+    t.prerequisite_targets.emplace_back (r);
+    return r;
   }
 
   target_state
diff --git a/build2/cxx/compile.cxx b/build2/cxx/compile.cxx
index 015d538..2d42cbc 100644
--- a/build2/cxx/compile.cxx
+++ b/build2/cxx/compile.cxx
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ namespace build2
 
       // Inject dependency on the output directory.
       //
-      inject_parent_fsdir (a, t);
+      fsdir* dir (inject_parent_fsdir (a, t));
 
       // Search and match all the existing prerequisites. The injection
       // code (below) takes care of the ones it is adding.
@@ -143,6 +143,20 @@ namespace build2
           dynamic_cast<cxx&> (
             mr.target != nullptr ? *mr.target : *mr.prerequisite->target));
 
+        // Make sure the output directory exists.
+        //
+        // Is this the right thing to do? It does smell a bit, but then we do
+        // worse things in inject_prerequisites() below. There is also no way
+        // to postpone this until update since we need to extract and inject
+        // header dependencies now (we don't want to be calling search() and
+        // match() in update), which means we need to cache them now as well.
+        // So the only alternative, it seems, is to cache the updates to the
+        // database until later which will sure complicate (and slow down)
+        // things.
+        //
+        if (dir != nullptr)
+          execute_direct (a, *dir);
+
         depdb dd (t.path () + ".d");
 
         // First should come the rule name/version.