Re: [jamboost] Side targets, stage, and --clean

From: Pedro Ferreira (pedro.ferreira_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-18 05:30:10

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> Another solution is to remove the fancy logic which eliminates some
targets.
> This will work for me, and simplify code. Also, this is also needed to fix
> the --clean option. It was requested that --clean does not remove targets
in
> other project, or at least in other project roots. Now it removes
everything
> bjam sees and that's not nice. But to implement right semantic, all
virtual
> targets must be seen and processed by top-level code.
>
> So, this looks like an excellent approach, except for 'stage'.
>
> exe a : a.cpp ;
> stage dist : a ;
>
> If 'a' returns all targets, then 'stage' will start to copy response files
and
> what not. Is it a problem? I think it's not that nice, but OTOH it won't
> break anything. For real uses, it's easy to add <include-type> features to
> stage only EXES (after I commit recent Pedro's patch).
>
> Comments?

I intend to use <include-type> everywhere so it's not a problem to me.
However, I think it's not very elegant, and even with proper documentation
it may be confusing to the non-initiated...

An option would be to move the "fancy logic" to stage itself, but that would
be losing one chance to simplify the code.

As I said, I can live quite happily with your proposal.

Cheers,

Pedro