Re: [Boost-build] Latest b2 on trunk always rerunning tests

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Latest b2 on trunk always rerunning tests
From: Jürgen Hunold (jhunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-06 10:58:17

Hi Steven,

On Wednesday, 6. November 2013 07:07:25 Steven Watanabe wrote:
> > This eliminates the "b2 headers" step but seems to trigger full rebuilds
> > on
> > every b2 invocation.
> 
> Don't do this.  This is completely wrong.

Right. Revertet as in seen in:

>Author: jhunold
>Date: 2013-11-06 10:55:26 EST (Wed, 06 Nov 2013)
>New Revision: 86573
>URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/86573

>Log:
>Revert 86527: <dependency> on /boost//headers is wrong, use <implicit-
>dependency> again.

But I'd really like to know:

- Why is this completely wrong?
- Can we somehow avoid the "b2 headers" step?

Yours,

Jürgen
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