Re: [Boost-build] shallow rebuild

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-08 15:48:13

On Monday 08 January 2007 23:36, Phillip Seaver wrote:
> 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)

In fact, if you have 

        exe main : main.cpp ;

then

        bjam --clean main

will delete 'main' and 'main.o'. I was under impression that rebuilding just 'main'
was intended.

- Volodya