Re: [jamboost] why repeated rule output?

From: Larry Evans (jcampbell3_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-01 22:48:16

David Abrahams wrote:

> Larry, have you read the Jam documentation and the supplementary
> materials at
> http://www.boost.org/tools/build/build_system.htm#jam_fundamentals? This
> sort of thing is covered there.

I read that, but obviously not carefully enough. I also read
"If target is provided on the command line, jam builds target; otherwise jam builds the target 'all'. "
in jam_src/Jam.html, but it was a while ago. I guess I assumed jam worked like make and would
make the first target.

>
>
> If I invoke
>
> jam always-target
>
> It does indeed print "action output is ."

Thanks. I did that and it does that.