Re: [Boost-build] Identifying target-name in jamfile

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Identifying target-name in jamfile
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-31 15:19:29

AMDG

On 05/30/2016 07:44 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
> 
> A list of built-in rules that call target.main-target-alternative would
> be helpful in the documentation. Or are all the built-in rules listed in
> the doc ones that call target.main-target-alternative ?

If you're looking at the list here:
http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/reference/rules.html,
it's incomplete (though it does have most of the
common rules) and also includes utility rules like
glob, which don't create targets.

> That way I could
> know whether my own rules are targets based on which other rules it
> invokes.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe