Re: [jamboost] Re: [v1] Defines not propagated to dependencies?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-12 04:58:30

On Friday 05 August 2005 19:10, David Abrahams wrote:

> > Hmm... this is V2 syntax, and in V2 it doesn't.
>
> I expected it to. I think it does in v1.
>
> > All "directly requested
> > targets", that is targets in the current Jamfile and in Jamfiles referred
> > with "build-project" will be built with that define, but libraries
> > indirectly used by those targets won't get the define.
>
> Oh, well that might be better than the v1 behavior. Maybe:
>
> bjam --global define=BOOST_DETECT_OUTDATED_WORKAROUNDS
>
> or
>
> bjam --propagate define=BOOST_DETECT_OUTDATED_WORKAROUNDS
>
> ??

What's the exact behaviour will be? Equivalent to adding 
"<define>BOOST_DETECT_OUTDATED_WORKAROUND" to requirements of all project 
roots?

Seems reasonable to me.

- Volodya

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