[Boost-build] Challenge: feature relevance

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-18 03:49:20

Hi,
one of the issues that would be very nice to fix for the next release 
is "feature relevance":

     https://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/boost.build/ticket/4

In short, we should not be generating BoostBook documentation into 'gcc/debug' 
directory, since HTML files will be the same, no matter what compiler is used 
to generate executables.

This issue involves computing for each action which features affect it by 
looking at all 'flags' rule invocation, and then removing irrelevant features 
from properties of targets.

This is not very complex, and is rather important feature.

Is anybody interested to take a stab at it?

Thanks,
Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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