Re: [Boost-build] Bjam patch to use maximum value of timeout option

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Bjam patch to use maximum value of timeout option
From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-23 16:33:31

On Nov 23, 2010, at 1:41 PM, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:07:13 -0700,
>> K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>>>
>>> I discovered that if bjam is presented with more than one occurrence
>>> of the timeout parameter (-l) on the command line, bjam will always
>>> use the first occurrence.  Often during regression testing, more  
>>> than
>>> one -l option occurs on the command line.  This patch changes the
>>> logic to use the largest specified timeout value on the command  
>>> line,
>>> rather than an order specific selection (i.e. always first, always
>>> last, etc...).
>>>
>>> Tested on Darwin and Linux, okay to commit?
>>
>> Needs a doc patch too, no?
>
> Yes, I think so.  Working on that.

Okay, sorry to be uninformed but how do I update the bjam  
documentation (presumably it's what's shown on this page)?

http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/jam/jam/usage.html#jam.usage.options

-- Noel