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List:       boost-build
Subject:    Re: [Boost-build] Identifying target-name in jamfile
From:       Edward Diener <eldiener () tropicsoft ! com>
Date:       2016-05-31 20:17:10
Message-ID: nikrga$tpb$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On 5/31/2016 3:19 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
> 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.

Why not specify the names of all built-in rules which create targets
somewhere in the documentation ?

>
>> That way I could
>> know whether my own rules are targets based on which other rules it
>> invokes.
>>
>
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe


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