Opened 20 years ago

Last modified 18 years ago

#67 closed defect

"--help-all" is silent, goes into indefinate loop. — at Version 4

Reported by: grafik@… Owned by: somebody
Priority: minor Milestone: C++ Boost maintenance
Component: component1 Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by ghost)

"--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| +----------------------+ +--------------+ | ^ / \ +-+-+ | | .

Change History (4)

comment:1 by ghost, 20 years ago

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.

comment:2 by grafik@…, 20 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

comment:3 by grafik@…, 20 years ago

Priority: critical → minor
Resolution: fixed
Status: closed → reopened
Summary: "--help *" is silent. → "--help-all" is silent, goes into indefinate loop.

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

comment:4 by ghost, 19 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
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