Dependency feature does not build dependency targets.

[René Rivera]

I added a feature to take advantage of Apple's linker option "-force_load" (see [61684]). Unfortunately it doesn't totally work. The dependency I specify is a BB target itself, for example:

lib mylib : x.cpp ;

exe test : main.cpp : <force-load>mylib/<link>static ;

Will add the correct link option and path to the archive. But it doesn't build, as I would expect, the mylib.a archive.

[René Rivera]

I "worked around it" by manually doing a DEPENDS (see [61689]), But it still seems like this is something that should be done automatically.

[Steven Watanabe]

This is the expected behavior. A "dependency" feature is a target. It doesn't necessarily create a build dependency. (For example, implicit-dependency and use are both dependency features.)