[Boost-build] --exec-prefix --builddir and --build-dir

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-23 09:10:07

If you look at 

  bjam --v2 --help

you'll see a mix of option styles.  There's 

     --exec-prefix

with two words separated by a hyphen, but there's also

     --builddir

and
     
     --buildid

I believe --builddir is especially heinous because, IIUC, the
official BBv2 option is --build-dir.  This is making it hard for me to
give clear and straightforward getting started instructions.  Can we
please settle on one convention?  I prefer (by far) the versions with
the hyphens.

If there's some need to keep the un-hyphenated options for backward
compatibility, can we at least make them undocumented?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com