1 [*] add "-=" 'assign' (to exclude elements from list)
2 [*] $(>[2:S=.tiles]) -- bugs us out (adds extra char)
3 [.] replace regexp library with new one (from Tcl?)
4 [.] glob: allow ']' and '-' escaping inside ranges
5 [.] InstallConfig target with 'cfgname.new' if old one exists
7 [.] separate make target always relinks .exe; why?
9 [.] optional argument list for rule definition (j+)
10 [.] for local y in $(x) (bj)
11 [.] negative indexing (rel. to EOL) (bj)
14 [?] multipass builds from j+ (QueueJamfile)
17 Target Binding Detection
19 Whenever a target is bound to a location in the filesystem, Boost
20 Jam will look for a variable called BINDRULE (first ``on'' the
21 target being bound, then in the global module). If non-empty,
22 $(BINDRULE[1]) names a rule which is called with the name of the
23 target and the path it is being bound to. The signature of the rule
24 named by $(BINDRULE[1]) should match the following:
26 rule bind-rule ( target : path )
28 This facility is useful for correct header file scanning, since many
29 compilers will search for #included files first in the directory
30 containing the file doing the #include directive. $(BINDRULE) can be
31 used to make a record of that directory.
33 [?] The BACKTRACE rule
38 It is sometimes desirable to disallow parallel execution of some
41 Old versions of yacc use files with fixed names. So, running two
42 yacc actions is dangerous.
44 One might want to perform parallel compiling, but not do parallel
45 linking, because linking is i/o bound and only gets slower.
47 Craig McPeeters has extended Perforce Jam to solve such problems,
48 and that extension was integrated in Boost.Jam.
50 Any target can be assigned a semaphore, by setting a variable called
51 SEMAPHORE on that target. The value of the variable is the semaphore
52 name. It must be different from names of any declared target, but is
55 The semantic of semaphores is that in a group of targets which have
56 the same semaphore, only one can be updated at the moment,
57 regardless of "-j" option.