[Boost-build] Controlling bjam's output

From: Jim Babcock (jbabcock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-08 16:26:48

Each time bjam builds a target, it prints the rule used and the location of 
the target, which produces a line like
   intel-linux-C++-action 
bin/exampleproject/intel-linux/release/debug-symbols-on/optimization-speed/profiling-off/runtime-link-dynamic/shared-linkable-true/threading-single/examplefile.o

I'd like to replace this with something more concise and useful, to show 
what's going on without drowning out errors and warnings. With make(1), I 
would do this by prefixing each command with @ and echo-ing my desired 
output before each command. I would like to do something similar in bjam, 
but I can't figure out how.

(More specifically, I want the name of the source file rather than the name 
and path of the object file, an abbreviated form of the action name instead 
of the whole thing, and some indentation in front of each line.) Is this 
possible and, if so, how would I go about it?

-- Jim Babcock