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From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-17 10:42:37


Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hi!
> I did some changes to Jambase, and noticed that jambase.c is not rebuild.
> Looking closer, I see this in build.jam:
>
> if $(debug)
> {
> .mkjambase jambase.c : Jambase ;
> }
>
> Why the conditional? I think that not updating part of tree is not a good idea
> in all cases.

Dave at one point suggested that we not build the "internal" files, like
the parser and jambase, for regular user builds. And the internal files
would get built only when a developer, i.e. us, was doing the build.

Is the change to Jambase needed for BBv2, and hence the 1.34 release? I
need to now so that I can make another release of bjam before we release
1.34.

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