Re: [Boost-build] How do you redefine features for a variant?

From: Jürgen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-01 02:03:54

Hi Daniel !

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:02, Daniel Einspanjer wrote:
> I always want the /MT flag so I added
>         <runtime-debugging>off
>         <runtime-link>static
>         <threading>multi
> to my project requirements.  This caused my output directory to expand to
> include those settings as subdirectories under debug.
>
> I'd like to just change the debug and release variants to use those
> features.  Can that be done?  

>From one of my Jamroots:

# rearrange default-features to shorten build paths
import feature ;
feature.set-default threading : multi ;

> I'd rather not have to extend them since then 
> I have to change the build system to default to the enxtended versions and
> looking in the bin/msvc/debug for results just makes more sense to me than
> bin/msvc/special_debug.

This should work with all built-in features. Unless you try to remove NDEBUG 
from release, of course...

Yours,

Jürgen

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