Re: how to kill off property-adjuster

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