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From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-20 02:18:43


Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> "Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:47199517.7080402_at_gmail.com...
>>> What does explicit do?
>> It prevents it from building that target automatically, i.e. implicitly.
>
> What's the reason to put in into test/Jamfile?

To prevent building the target when one runs bjam in the directory of
the Jamfile, i.e. not automatically. Hence one must ask to build it
"explicitly".

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