Re: [jamboost] [V2] stage rule builds too many libs

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-29 04:24:17

Hi Jürgen,

> I've been experimenting with the stage rule and found one bug I could
> not reproduce :-(( and one strange behaviour.
>
> The attached test case contains a simple setup.
> I wanted to build my program (and the needed shared libs) staged at the
> "bin" directory.
> The project depends on boost, so I state <use>/boost in
> Toplevel-Jamfile.
> The stage rule then happily builds _all_ boost libraries and stages them
> to the "bin" directory.
> I think this is a bug, because the docs state that only all dependent
> libs are staged.

I agree that this is a problem. I'm afraid the fix cannot be included in M10, 
but I'll address this issue soon afterwards.

Thanks!

- Volodya