Re: [Boost-build] meaning of generators.override?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-06 08:14:42

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:53, Larry Evans wrote:
> What's the meaning of:
> 
> generators.override gcc.prebuilt : builtin.prebuilt ;
> 
> in gcc.jam? The command:
> 
>    bjam --v2 --help generators
> 
> provides no help.

I've documented that rule as follows.

HTH,
Volodya

# Make generator 'overrider-id' be preferred to
# 'overridee-id'. If, when searching for generators
# that could produce a target of certain type,
# both those generators are amoung viable generators,
# the overridden generator is immediately discarded.
#
# The overridden generators are discarded immediately
# after computing the list of viable generators, before
# running any of them.