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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] how to add include directories for compile but not for scan
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-23 15:43:36


AMDG

On 04/23/2012 11:57 AM, François Jacques wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I like the idea of tagging dependency directories as static - this
> could be very useful.
>
> Educating myself on the HCACHEFILE feature, I've stumbled on changes
> that were submitted by Matt Armstrong to perforce jam to improve the
> HCACHE. These changes eventually were integrated by Craig McPheeters
> as an updated canonical version of the header cache on perforce
> contributions.
>
> <http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/jamming/2002-January/000784.html>
>
> These changes were integrated in the jamplus fork, but diffing jamplus
> with bjam source trees, it seems that BoostJam didn't got those
> changes integrated and they seem to make a big difference.
>

Really? The features described in that thread seem
to match the current bjam implementation.

> With recent typesafety refactoring (a good thing, IMHO) it makes it
> harder to bring these changes, but working with an old version it
> should make this more feasible. It seems that the changes are worth it
> considering the boost (pun intended) we would get in dependencies
> processing.
>

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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