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Moses, the machine translation system
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bjam --help option not available anymore #143

Closed bricksdont closed 8 years ago

bricksdont commented 8 years ago

The "Getting started" page here:

http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Development.GetStarted

states:

You see what options are available with bjam, run ./bjam --help

But when I run bjam with the --help option, it just starts the build process and does not output help text. Looking at

https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/blob/master/Jamroot

it seems that there is no -help option. Was it removed? Please either add the option back in or change the "GetStarted" page.

michaelhutt commented 8 years ago

If I run './bjam --help' I get the generic bjam help and then it exits without doing anything.

FWIW, I don't think that option ever existed in a useful form. I always reference the top bit of the Jamroot file for options.

bricksdont commented 8 years ago

@michaelhutt So, do you agree that either the Jamroot file or the documentation should be changed?

michaelhutt commented 8 years ago

Sure - I'll bet a patch would be readily accepted. On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:49 AM bricksdont notifications@github.com wrote:

@michaelhutt https://github.com/michaelhutt So, do you agree that either the Jamroot file or the documentation should be changed?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/issues/143#issuecomment-190128739 .

hieuhoang commented 8 years ago

You're right, --help doesn't say anything useful. I've deleted it from the website