Re: [Boost-build] Dependencies dropped during concurrent builds

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Dependencies dropped during concurrent builds
From: Nogradi, Chris (Chris.Nogradi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-11 13:00:45

On Friday, November 01, 2013 6:14 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
> On 11/01/2013 03:50 PM, Nogradi, Chris wrote:
> > I do have a question regarding your enhancement to property.refine where
> > you had removed some 'premature optimizations which hurt performance' in
> > svn83854.  Well I had made some changes to this rule to also remove sub-
> > features of features that it had removed, otherwise the overridden feature
> > would be removed but its sub-features would remain and clash with the sub-
> > features specified in the requirements.  But your change suggests that I
> > should not be doing that here.  Or should I?
>
> That's a good point.  Do you have a test case?
>

Yes, I have submitted a Trac issue here for this: https://trac.lvk.cs.msu.su/boost.build/ticket/233 with an attached example.  I probably need a fix soon for this so I can try to address it myself if properties.refine is the right place to do it and then send you a patch.

Thanks,

Chris

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