[Scons-users] CPPDFINES oder conf.Define

[Florian Lindner]

Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> http://www.scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-user.html mentions
>> CPPDEFINES
>> for setting defines.
>>
>> http://www.scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-man.html on the other hand
>> mentions sconf.Define(symbol, [value, comment]) for that.
>>
>> What is right way to set defines for C++?
>>
> 
> CPPDEFINES is almost always the right answer.  sconf.Define() should only
> be used to add to the set of CPPDEFINES within a Configure context.

What do you mean by 'within a configure context'. Usually I do

env = Environment(variables = vars, ENV = os.environ) 
conf = Configure(env)

at the top of my SConstruct.

So I am always inside a configure context, am I not?

Rgds,
Florian