[Boost-users] bjam: defining string literals HELP!!!!

From: jono (jp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-02 22:39:00

hi,

it would be really useful for me to be able to define a string literal in a Jamfile...

eg:
=====================================================
dll useful_variant : <template>useful

        src/modules/interpreter/useful_variant.cpp

        : # requirements

        <define>VARIANT
        <define>NAME="variant"

        ;
=====================================================

gcc -DNAME=\"variant\" does what i want, so i've also tried

<cxxflags>-DMODULENAME="variant"
<cxxflags>"-DMODULENAME="variant""
<cxxflags>'-DMODULENAME="variant"'
<cxxflags>"-DMODULENAME=\"variant\""
<cxxflags>"-DMODULENAME=\"\"variant\"\""
<cxxflags>"-DMODULENAME=""variant"""

and various other hopeful monsters...

but whatever i do, 'variant' appears in the source file as an identifier not a string.

is it possible to achieve what i want with bjam???????????????????????????

cheers, and thanks in advance.

Jono
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