I had a lot of trouble getting FT-Jam to do a proper incremental build on my ArchLinux system. To make a long story short, it came down to incorrect `ar' options. The the default Jambase uses `ar ru`, but it needs to be `ar ruU`. The incorrect options cause a warning message: "ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U')" and makes archive members always rebuild even when they are up to date. I guess the binutils provided in the Arch repository is configured with --enable-deterministic-archives, and that changes the default option of the ar command from U to D. I propose changing the default Jambase to explicitly include the U option.

On the other hand, I don't see a lot of development activity on Jam and the Perforce public depot does not load, so this may be falling on deaf ears. In any case, I figured I should say something.

~David


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