Re: [Boost-build] project requirement inheritance

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-04 04:33:36

On Friday 04 July 2008 10:59:37 Andrej van der Zee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about the inheritance of project
> requirements. In my setup I have the following:
> 
> .../Jamfile
> .../handlers/Jamfile
> .../daemon/Jamfile
> 
> In the .../Jamfile I have the following:
> 
> project : requirements
>   <define>TIXML_USE_TICPP
>   <os>AIX:<include>$(root-path)/server/handlers/aix
>   ;
> 
> build-project handlers ;
> build-project daemon ;
> 
> Now if I run bjam in .../handlers, the define and
> include-path are added to the compilation command, as
> I would expect. But, if I do the same in .../daemon,
> then nothing is added to the command. Although
> project-requirements from my Jamroot are added. Any
> idea why?

Please provide a minimal self-contained archived project
reproducing this behaviour, and I'll take a look. 

- Volodya