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BoostBook element requirement

requirement — A requirement/property in the Jamfile for a testcase

Synopsis

requirement ::= (#PCDATA)

Description

A requirement is part of the dependencies of a target in a Jamfile. The name attribute of a requirement element gives the name of the Boost.Build feature and the content of the requirement gives the value of that feature. A requirement such as <includes>foo.hpp would be encoded as <requirement name="includes">foo.hpp</requirement>.

Attributes

Name Type Value Purpose
name #REQUIRED CDATA The name of the element being declared to referenced

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