Re: [Boost-build] shallow rebuild

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-08 15:36:58

Vladimir Prus wrote, on 1/8/2007 3:26 PM:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 23:23, Jaroslav Gresula wrote:
>   
>> Chris Weed wrote:
>>     
>>> Doesn't the following do what you want?
>>> bjam clean TARGET
>>> bjam TARGET
>>>
>>>       
>> Probably yes, but I would prefer single bjam invocation as this use case 
>> is quite frequent for me.
>>     
>
> I would expect 
>
> 	bjam --clean TARGET
>
> to clean everything involved in constructing TARGET, not just the top-level
> results.
>
> - Volodya
>   

"bjam --clean-all TARGET" does that.  "--clean" used to, but someone 
added "--clean-all" and changed the behavior of the clean target.  (I 
prefer the new behavior)

Out of curiosity, why do you want/need to completely rebuild a target 
frequently?

Phillip