Re: [jamboost] Re: Boost Test/Build question : How to turn off RmTemps action

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-21 05:50:57

kweeheong wrote:
> I did a grep on tools\build and found two files {allyourbase,testing}.
> jam that referenced RmTemps.
> 
> testing.jam had some code that looks like :
> | if ! ( --preserve-test-targets in $(ARGV) )
> | {
> | RmTemps $(run-target) : $(targets-to-test) ;
> | }
> 
> By sheer guesswork, I tried bjam -sTOOLS=gcc --preserve-test-targets 
> testdate and lo! the
> RmTemps action was not called, leaving the .exe behind.
> 
> Is this the correct ( or rather supported ) way to disable RmTemps? 

Yes, that's correct, and would have been my answer had I been awake to 
answer ;-)

And to answer your other previous question; No there's no documentation 
for this in BBv1.

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