Re: [jamboost] Re: --help broken

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-04 00:55:57

David Abrahams wrote:
> Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
> > Oh never mind just looked at bootstrap.jam :-) So all I can really say is
> > that I don't know what the problem is. I'll just wait for Dave or Ali to
> > look at the bootstrap problem.
> >
> >>and where "help.jam" belong?
> >> "core/options"?
> >
> > Do you mean doc.jam? Or is the file getting renamed in the new layout?
> > Ali mentioned treating it as a option plugin, so "options" seems
> > appropriate.
>
> Whoops, I'm sorry. See tools/build/options/help.jam, which I think
> should explain everything.

Ehm... did you try to invoke "bjam --help-all". It prints absolutely nothing, 
for a simple reason: the "help.jam" module calls "EXIT", so the header 
scanning stuff which actually outputs the help string is never run.

I've did a fix in CVS, please take a look and tell if it's OK.

- Volodya