free feature on the command line

A change causing that free properties specified on the
command line
are applied globally has been committed recently to BBv2.
In
particular, the define and cxxflags features were mentioned
in the
related discussion.

Are custom defined free features supposed to behave in the
same way as
well? I have a simple generator and a free feature
associated with it
but specifying that feature on the command line has no
effect.

Thanks,
-- 
Jarda

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Jaroslav Gresula wrote:

> A change causing that free properties specified on the
command line
> are applied globally has been committed recently to
BBv2. In
> particular, the define and cxxflags features were
mentioned in the
> related discussion.
> 
> Are custom defined free features supposed to behave in
the same way as
> well? 

Yes.

> I have a simple generator and a free feature associated
with it 
> but specifying that feature on the command line has no
effect.

It might be that your generator ignores the feature. Do you
have a minimal example reproducing thing?

- Volodya


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Vladimir Prus <ghostcs.msu.su> wrote:
> Jaroslav Gresula wrote:
>
>> A change causing that free properties specified on
the command line
>> are applied globally has been committed recently to
BBv2. In
>> particular, the define and cxxflags features were
mentioned in the
>> related discussion.
>> 
>> Are custom defined free features supposed to behave
in the same way as
>> well? 
>
> Yes.
>
>> I have a simple generator and a free feature
associated with it 
>> but specifying that feature on the command line has
no effect.
>
> It might be that your generator ignores the feature. Do
you
> have a minimal example reproducing thing?

It actually works. It was BB misconfiguration on my side
(boost-build.jam pointing to an older BB version).

-- 
Jarda

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