"--help-all" is silent, goes into indefinate loop.

[grafik@…]

"--help <something>" no longer shows anything. Perhaps the changes to implement the local Jamfile help broke it.

--help-all, produces amoung other things, the following:

* targets: +------------------------+ |abstract-target |
  +========================+ |name | |project | | | |generate(properties) = 0|
  +-----------+------------+ | ^ / \ +-+-+ | |
  +------------------------+------+------------------------------+ | | | | | |
  +----------+-----------+ +------+------+ +------+-------+ | project-target |
  | main-target | | basic-target | +======================+ 1 * +=============+
  alternatives +==============+ | generate(properties) |o-----------+ generate
  |<>------------->| generate | | main-target | +-------------+ | construct =
  0| +----------------------+ +--------------+ | ^ / \ +-+-+ | | .

[ghost]

Also --help-all does not produce anything. I'm not sure what's up. The changes to implement local Jamfile help included moving call to 'options.process' to build-system.jam, line 144 in my copy. However, I've no idea why this should break anything.

[grafik@…]

Forgot one aspect which is not fixed. --help-all now goes into some form of infinite loop no clue why yet.

[jurko dot gospodnetic at docte dot hr]

bjam --help-all does nothing in bjam 3.1.17. There is no handling for it in the source code so I guess this issue should be closed.

[jurko dot gospodnetic at docte dot hr]

As I see it in the source code, --help-all seems to have been renamed to --help-internal.

[Md Abdur Rahim]

Tested with SVN revision 42484 and there is no indefinite loop with --help-internal on the main boost trunk. There is a problem with most Boost Build modules not getting their documentation displayed correctly but that has been added as a separate issue #164.