Re: [jamboost] patch boost-base.jam project wide settings

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-26 12:09:05

On 2002-02-26 at 05:59 PM, witt_at_[hidden] (Thomas Witt) wrote:

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>Rene,
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>On Tuesday 26 February 2002 16:59, Rene Rivera wrote:
>> variant my-debug : TplDerived : ;
>> variant my-release : TplDerived : ;
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>Where comes the debug and release in ?

Oops, again, forgot something, that should be:

variant my-debug : TplDerived debug : ;
variant my-release : TplDerived release : ;

>What templates do is maintain a variable that holds requirements. For each 
>target prepend eventual template req's to target req's. The idea is to do the 
>same for build settings.
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>The advantage I see is that template is more fine grained than variant. Using 
>variant would mean loads of uneccessary req's(think library-path) for most of 
>the targets. Furthermore all main-targets in a project have to use the same 
>variant whereas they are free to select the template.

Yes, I see that now from the example Dave pointed out. I'll explain some of my
other thoughts on that other thread.

And, thanks for the fresh outlook on this problem :-)

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