Re: [Boost-build] How to remove specific compiler/linker flags

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to remove specific compiler/linker flags
From: Anthony Foglia (AFoglia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-06 10:36:11

Boris Schaeling wrote:
> On Thu, 06 May 2010 08:28:57 +0200, Benjamin Prestele 
> <benjamin.prestele_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> [...]while the <optimization>off gets propagated down to all dependent 
>> targets, the <cxxflags> do not. So basically all dependent targets 
>> need to to be updated with the additional <cxxflags>.
> 
> If the dependent targets are all defined in Jamfiles I think you can use:
> 
> project : requirements <cxxflags>-O2 ;

What if he made a new variant?  Would that get propagated?  Or would a 
feature?  (What if the feature were link-incompatible?)

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