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3213	Add -C (change directory) option to bjam	Jeremiah Willcock	René Rivera	"GNU Make has a very useful command line flag -C (or --directory) that changes the directory to its argument before starting make.  This is different than changing it in your shell because Make's change is local to its process (and its subprocesses) and does not change the outside user environment.  One example of where this is useful is if I am working in boost/graph, and would like to re-run the Boost.Graph test suite.  With -C, all I would need to do is:

bjam -C ../../libs/graph/test

and the tests would be run as though I changed into that directory, ran bjam, and then changed back.  I believe that this feature would be very convenient.  More documentation is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Options-Summary."	Feature Requests	closed	Boost 1.40.0	bjam	Boost 1.39.0	Not Applicable	worksforme