[build2] [bug] Targets not built if not used by the first target appearing in a buildfile

Klaim - Joël Lamotte mjklaim at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 15:01:27 UTC 2018


On 24 March 2018 at 14:01, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:

> So something like this:
>
> exe{hello}: cxx{hello}
>
> Is equivalent to:
>
> ./: exe{hello}
> exe{hello}: cxx{hello}
>


By the way, is there something problematic with making

exe{hello}: cxx{hello}
liba{x}: cxx{x}
liba{y: cxx{y}

implicitely do

./: exe{hello} liba{x y}
exe{hello}: cxx{hello}
liba{x}: cxx{x}
liba{y}: cxx{y}

?

Why does this implicit behaviour happen only on the first target?

A. Joël Lamotte
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