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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Debugging how bjam determines build properties
From: Anthony Foglia (AFoglia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-12 22:16:53


Anthony Foglia wrote:
> Is there some reasonable way to debug how bjam determines the build
> properties of the request. I've been discovering some real screwy
> oddities with the build bjam makes, and the debug information from
> --debug-building is just way too much information for a human to parse.
>
> My current problem is that the target has some dependencies which have a
> common library dependency, which is defined with the requirement
> <link>static, the usage-requirement <link>static, and included in the
> libraries which use it with a /<link>static, yet still bjam wants to use
> a .so version.
>
> (An earlier problem was that bjam was compiling sourced in
> multi-threaded that I explicity removed from the sources in such case,
> but only under certain conditions.)
>
> There has to be a better way than trying to parse 2000 lines of output.
> Does someone have some sort of script perhaps to parse the output of
> --debug-building? Or are there other command line options?

Correction: It was 2000 lines after I inserted carriage returns after
each property to make it readable. (My eyes glaze over when lines run
over 400 characters.)

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Anthony Foglia
Princeton Consultants
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