Re: Bad rules in bjam

From: David Abrahams (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-10 09:41:57

"Lev Assinovsky" <lassinovsky_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:01612DAA1891D211855D00104BC81B53015816FF_at_exchange.edr.com...
> Hi folks!
> I found out that two major rules (from "allyourbase.jam") differ from
> classic Jam
> and can't work with full power (with gcc on solaris8-x86 at least).
> * Thus 'EXE' rule doesn't allow you linking with 3-rd party library
> (flag LINKFLAGS is ignored).
> * 'Main' rule skips compilation phase, though it's declared in the
> same allyourbase.jam:
> # Main image : source ;                 link executable from compiled
> sources
> Anyone experienced this?

That shouldn't matter. If you want "classic Jam" behavior, you should invoke
"jam", which will use the classic Jambase. "bjam" is just for Boost.Build
behavior.

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