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From: Christopher Currie (Christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-31 09:19:57


> I think the problem here is that the user doesn't have a way to say,
> "this thing is really just a dependency of some other main target;
> don't build it by default".
>
> dependency lib B : b.cpp ;
>
> or
>
> lib B : b.cpp ;
> don't-build B ;
>
> or some such thing.

I believe Milestone 6 has a rule, 'explicit', that does what you want.

http://boost.sourceforge.net/boost-build2/boost_build_v2.html#explicit_rule

Christopher

 


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