Re: [Boost-build] Confused about specifying variants on command line

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Confused about specifying variants on command line
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-09 15:26:49

On Thursday 09 April 2009 23:03:57 Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > I'm just wondering about:
> >
> > bjam --build-dir=/var/tmp/build/glcxx \
> >      --stagedir=stage-glibcxx-debug \
> >      define=_GLIBCXX_DEBUG \
> >      debug stage
> >
> > Why did this command (from the top level of a boost-1.34.1 tree) build
> > boost _release_ binaries as well as debug ones?
> >   
> 
> I'm pretty sure that it shouldn't have done this.
> (That isn't to say that it didn't actually behave this way, though.
> I haven't tested with 1.34.1 recently)

I have tested with SVN head, with and without --build-type=complete,
and don't see any release targets created. It could be that in 1.34,
--build-type=complete was default, and there was some bug in its
handling that made it build release variant anyway.

- Volodya