Re: [Boost-build] feature, properties, variants, and all the rest

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] feature, properties, variants, and all the rest
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-13 14:24:19

On 13.01.2017 14:19, Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
>
> On 01/13/2017 11:59 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> On 13.01.2017 13:48, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>>> On 01/13/2017 10:39 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to trace the generator logic, i.e. see how a toolset is
>>>> picked based on the property set, and how the 'inner' targets are
>>>> generated ?
>>>>
>>> That would be --debug-generators.
>> Nice, thanks ! (It would be even better if all these flags were
>> available via `b2 -h` !)
>>
>   They're shown by --help.  (It's somewhat
> unfortunate, but -h and --help are different.)

Indeed. But even more unfortunate: `bjam --help` shows strictly nothing
for me. Or rather, it seems the option is ignored, so I get

$ bjam --help
...found 12 targets...

('bjam' is the tool's name on Fedora 25, coming from the boost-jam-1.60
package)

Is the `--help` flag newer than 1.60 ? (In my boost repo, I can of
course reproduce that `b2 --help` reports all those options.)

    Stefan

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