Re: Where can $(inherited) be used?
Re: Where can $(inherited) be used?
- Subject: Re: Where can $(inherited) be used?
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:19:39 -0500
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On 1/25/10 5:26 PM, Stonewall Ballard said:
>I just refactored some .xcconfig files, and discovered that $(inherited)
>works in some places but not in others. I didn't see any documentation
>that even mentions $(inherited). I'd think it would be in the Xcode
>Build System Guide, but it isn't.
>
>Experimentation showed that you can't use it in a
>GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS setting. That seems like one of the best
>places to use it. A work-around is to set a user-defined symbol, say
>COMMON_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS to the definitions used everywhere, then
>put $(COMMON_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS) on the downstream definitions.
>
>Should $(inherited) have worked for defines? Is there any doc on where
>it's valid?
Do your .xcconfig files #include other .xcconfig files? If so, you may
be expecting $(inherited) to do something that it cannot, namely to
accumulate settings from previous #includes.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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