Re: [doc] b2 headers

Steven Watanabe via Boost-build <[email protected]>
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On 04/09/2018 10:59 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost-build wrote:
> On 9 April 2018 at 18:49, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 9 April 2018 at 16:09, Rene Rivera <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> "
>> target
>>     All tokens that are neither options nor properties specify what
>> targets to build.
>> "
> 
> b2 --toolset=gcc-5
> 
> This works as expected, of course, and does it work due to this rule?
> 
> "
> properties
>    (...) Syntactically, all command line tokens with an equal sign in
> them are considered to specify properties.
> "
> 
> IOW, equal sign has higher priority, and -- is discarded, so it is a
> property, not an option. Correct?
> 

  No.  -- takes priority.  --toolset is a special case which
exists for backwards compatibility and is discouraged.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe
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