Re: [Boost-build] How to set "USER_OPTIONS" in user-config.jam to pass to darwin.jam

From: Mike Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-11 16:25:57

On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Friday 11 July 2008 18:41:16 Mike Jackson wrote:
>> How do I go about setting something either on the command line or in
>> the user-config.jam file in order to set the "USER_OPTIONS" setting?
>>
>> I tried the obvious:
>>
>> USER_OPTIONS = " -headerpad_max_install_names " ;
>>
>> and then in darwin.jam I have the following:
>>
>> ECHO USER_OPTIONS are $(USER_OPTIONS) ;
>>
>> but I get an empty string.
>>
>> Thanks for any help on this.
>
> First, note that this option is passed by SVN HEAD version of  
> Boost.Build already.
> Second, USER_OPTIONS is a variable internal to darwin.jam and/or  
> gcc.jam, if you
> try to poke at it, nothing good will happen.
> Finally, you can use the following:
>
>   project user-config : requirements <linkerflags>"- 
> headerpad_max_install_names" ;
>
> in user-config.jam
>
> - Volodya
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I tried adding that to the user-config.jam file and I get the  
following error:

/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
feature.jam:286: in validate-feature from module feature
error: unknown feature "<linkerflags>"
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
feature.jam:319: in expand-subfeatures-aux from module feature
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
feature.jam:383: in expand-subfeatures from module feature
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
feature.jam:797: in feature.expand from module feature
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:908: in evaluate-requirements from module targets
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:1003: in common-properties2 from module targets
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:876: in targets.common-properties from module targets
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:1159: in object(alias-target-class)@71.generate from  
module object(alias-target-class)@71
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:742: in generate-really from module object(main-target)@198
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:715: in object(main-target)@198.generate from module  
object(main-target)@198
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build/ 
targets.jam:254: in object(project-target)@48.generate from module  
object(project-target)@48
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/build-system.jam: 
658: in load from module build-system
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/ 
modules.jam:267: in import from module modules
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/ 
bootstrap.jam:132: in boost-build from module
/Users/Shared/OpenSource/boost_1_35_0/boost-build.jam:11: in module  
scope from module

Not all Boost libraries built properly.

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