Hi All,

I have a few bjam questions - if anyone could give me some pointers, that would be very much appriciated ...

1) local/global define

lib my_odbc
: [ obj a : a.cpp ]
[ obj b : b.cpp ]
:<define>ODBC
;

the define is not local so it is not used when compiling, I dont like having to set the define on both objs - is it possible to set it once?

2) alias

I have 2 targets that are 90% alike, the only difference is they link to 1 different library. Now I specify 2 targets which are basically copies. Is it possible to define a general target once and specialize it for the actual case:

exe base : main.cpp lib-general ;

alias exe-a : base lib-a ;
alias exe-b : base lib-b ;

At the moment base is compiled/linked, this fails because some of the symbols is in either lib_a or lib_b

3) os detection

The property <os>NT is defined, this is the only value allowed. However, I'd like

exe my_exe : main.cpp : <os>NT <define>GREAT ;
exe my_exe : main.cpp : <os>LINUX <define>BETTER ;

Can I do this?

4) stage rename

I could'nt find this one:

stage deliver : exe_a : <location>a <rename>base ;

In other words, I'd like to give a name to an install target on installation.

Regards, Dirk Griffioen

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