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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-26 10:11:14

on Wed May 23 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su> wrote:

> 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 '-'

I meant "argument," not "property."

>> 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.

Yeah, but having no way to escape a character with special
significance is really bad.

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Dave Abrahams
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