Re: [Boost-build] Alias and conditional requirements

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Alias and conditional requirements
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-06 08:53:01

On 4/6/2011 2:34 AM, Gevorg Voskanyan wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> I tried to set a conditional requirement for all targets of an alias as an
>> alias  build requirement, but the conditional requirement was never added to the
>> command line of each target. Is this not possible ? Do I add it to the alias
>> usage requirements instead ?
>>
>> The doc for 'alias' seems incomplete to me  and does not tell me if
>> requirements of an alias, which is applied to all its  targets, is possible or
>> not.
>
>
> Edward,
>
> Is your situation similar to the one described
> in http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Alias-requirements-td3063172.html ?

It is nearly the same. I see what I am doing wrong now, however, from 
the discussion in the link above.