Re: [Boost-build] Replacement for --preserve-test-targets option

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Replacement for --preserve-test-targets option
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-21 13:58:48

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 January 2009 19:35:19 Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
>> I notice from
>> <URL:http://www.nabble.com/Idiom-for-running-tests-using-(non-test)-target--td20135471.html>
>> that the --preserve-test-targets command line option to bjam (mentioned in
>> the documentation) has been removed and replaced by a feature settable
>> from the Jamfile.  Is there still a way to set that flag from the command
>> line?  Trying the original command line option does not work.
>
> Any feature can be requested on the command line. Did you try
>
> 	bjam preserve-test-targets=on

No, I hadn't.  I tried to look for documentation on how to turn features 
on using the command line, and was not able to find that out.

>> Also, the
>> documentation should probably be updated to reflect the removal of that
>> option.
>
> Which documentation? I think that the option was never documented.

Page 33 of <URL:http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/userman.pdf>, for 
example.  When I searched to find out how to keep the executables around, 
many of the posts suggested that option.  Is there a timeline for making 
that the default, as was mentioned in the earlier post?

-- Jeremiah Willcock