Re: [Boost-users] bjam define=_SECURE_SCL shows no effect

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 17:23:58

on Tue May 22 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> 
>> on Tue May 22 2007, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen-AT-dezide.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Rene Rivera skrev:
>>>> Christopher Lux wrote:
>>>>> hi, after reading through this thread [1] i tried the following to
>>>>> build boost::program options:
>>>>>
>>>>> bjam define=_SECURE_SCL=0 define=_TESTING_SOMTHING=1
>>>>> --toolset=msvc-8.0 --with-program_options variant=release
>>>> 
>>>> There's no such features as "define"
>>>> <http://boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.advanced.builtins.features>.
>>>> You probably want "cflags".
>>>
>>> Does bjam warn if one puts arguments there that it does not support?
>> 
>> No
>
> Heh? 
>
>         $ bjam foo=bar
>         /home/ghost/Work/Boost/boost/tools/build/v2/build/property.jam:282: in validate1 from module property
>         error: Invalid property '<foo>bar': unknown feature 'foo'.

OK, it warns as long as the property doesn't start with '-' or the part
after '=' doesn't start with '/'

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Dave Abrahams
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