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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-23 02:16:04

David Abrahams wrote:

> 
> 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 '-' 

What do you mean? Property can never start with '-'

> or the part 
> after '=' doesn't start with '/'

I shall look into that. Note that "/" has special significance 
in build request, per docs, but we probably can improve
diagnostics.

- Volodya