Re: [jamboost] Building explicit targets via the build-project rule

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-05 05:46:53

Hi Ilia,
> >From time to time we use to have some 'experimental' targets, which
>
> are not ready to be built on every machine in our development
> environment.
>
> I'm using the explicit rule and marking these targets not to be
> built by default, with the intent to avoid disturbing the whole
> (default) build process.
>
> But when I'm building (sub)projects in my main project jamfile via
> the build-project rule, all targets, including explicit gets built.
>
> Is this an intentional behavior or a bug?

Looks like a bug. However, I cannot reproduce this on the attached example 
using CVS version. Can you provide a small testcase that reproduces the 
problem?

> I expected that build-project rule will behave the same way as
> invoking bjam with no target in the corresponding project's
> directory ...

Me too. In fact, they use exactly the same code path -- the generate method in 
project-target class, so I have no idea why the problem you describe can 
happen.

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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