Re: [jamboost] testing.jam default to "test"?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-05 13:32:52

Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [2003-01-05] David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Would it be possible to change the default for testing.jam runs to
> "test"?
>>>
>>> I did it that way so that people could put tests and regular targets
>>> in the same Jamfile, and tests would not be built by default. It can
>>> easily be overridden by sticking
>>>
>>> DEPENDS all : test ;
>>>
>>> In the Jamfile. 
>>
>>
>>Done.
>
> And this change just bit me :-( It turns out the date_time library has tests
> in its build/Jamfile. Which now get run, and built, when doing a top level
> build.

Shouldn't be, unless we're doing a subinclude of status from the top
level. We're not. Why would this show up?

> ...I happen to be testing the now finished bjam command line target fix :-)

Is that the Perforce Jam backwards-compatibility bug, or something
else?

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