Re: [Boost-users] Echoing commands in bjam v2

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-02 15:19:55

Richard Hadsell wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
>>By running
>>
>>        bjam --help
>>
>>and reading the "Important Options:" part of the output,
>>then using one of the option described there.
>>
>>Sorry for sending you to docs instead of giving direct
>>answer, but the output of --help is likely to save
>>some questions in future.
>>
> Thanks for pointing out the 'bjam --help'.
> 
> Since I wondered why I missed the -d+2 option, I went back to the docs.
> It seems to be missing.  Specifically, I looked at
> "Chapter 25. Boost.Build V2 User Manual".  The Overview/Invocation link
> pointed to a section that described several options (--clean, ...
> --debug) and then pointed to the "Command line arguments" section of the
> Detailed reference.  This describes the syntax, and is followed by a
> "Command line options" section, which says this:
> 
> All of the Boost.Build options start with the "--" prefix. They are
> described in the following table. FIXME: That table has moved into "User
> documentation" section and there's nothing we can add here. Remove this
> part?

Ah, I think we need to clean this part. There's a section about jam,
which has documentation for -d+2, but it's separate place from where
all Boost.Build options are documented. Perhaps I'll use some XInclude
magic to bring them together.

- Volodya