Re: [Boost-build] dynamically editing the bjam dependency graph

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] dynamically editing the bjam dependency graph
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-09-24 16:54:12

AMDG

On 09/23/2017 09:21 PM, Stefan Seefeld via Boost-build wrote:
> 
> Right, so I was just looking at that for a while. I'm trying to add a
> new target flag to indicate that dependent targets should ignore this
> target's fate, so even if it is set to ALWAYS, dependants should not be
> updated unless required by other dependencies.
> 
> However, I'm having a hard time identifying where the fate is propagated
> from prerequisite to dependent targets, i.e. where a target's fate is
> set to UPDATED as a result of a prerequisite target being updated. Can
> you help me a bit by pointing to the relevant code ?
> 

https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/develop/src/engine/make.c#L556

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe