Re: [Boost-build] Debugging how bjam determines build properties

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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