Re: Incrementally rebuild bjam?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-27 19:28:52

Rene Rivera wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>OK, this is now "fixed". The bootstrap jam0 goes to the single directory 
>>>"booststrap".
>> 
>> Fantastic! Now can I issue a single command that will fully bootstrap
>> bjam if neccessary, and otherwise will use bootstrap/jam0 to build it?
>> E.g.,
>> 
>> ./build --incremental
> 
> Give them an inch.. ;-) OK, you now have that option. But only for 
> build.bat for now. I'll switch over to Linux and do it for build.sh a 
> bit later.

Thanks!

> By the way incremental is somewhat of a misnomer in this case. As the 
> regular build.jam is simplistic in the way it builds. Even with the 
> option it will compile all source files if at least one of them needs to 
> be compiled.

--update

??

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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