Re: [Boost-build] How to adjust/redefine default variants "debug", "release" and "profiling"

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to adjust/redefine default variants "debug", "release" and "profiling"
From: Anthony Foglia (AFoglia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-11 13:06:21

Deniz Bahadir wrote:
> Thanks Anthony,
> 
>> I don't know exactly what you have in mind, but if all your builds are done
>> in the same project, you can add the define, you can add the define to the
>> list of requirements.
>>
>> project
>>  : requirements
>>    <variant>debug:<define>DEBUG
>>  ;
> 
> I am working at a bigger project with different directories,
> subdirectories, different libraries and executables. As far as I
> understand, I have probably more than one project. (I think by
> definition each Jamfile in each of my subdirectories is a project for
> its own. But I want the main settings like variants etc. be set
> "globally" in the Jamroot file and be propageted to all Jamfiles.)

I believe the settings in the first Jamroot above the Jamfile will 
propagate downward.  That seems to be our experience, though I can't say 
we did more than a cursory check.  We do have similar requirements in 
our Jamroot and they seem to propagate downwards to all our executables. 
  Perhaps they can be overridden though.

It's a little confusing because a project can contain projects.  But I 
think I got it.

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Anthony Foglia
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