Target specific contents of variables

I have a recipe with several programs and a lib. By accident, I found 
out that if I wanted to set DEBUG for only one of the programs, I had to 
set it for both the program name and the file, like this:

:program foo { var_DEBUG = yes } : foo.d { var_DEBUG = yes}

This is necessary because correct debugging is dependent on using the 
correct switches in both the compile and link phases. Leaving out one of 
the attribute blocks, removes the correct flag for that phase. I would 
possibly expect

:program { var_DEBUG = yes} foo : foo.d

to work, but the DEBUG wasn't set for either action.

It doesn't really matter, since I was able to use the global DEBUG, but 
I think it should be possible (wasn't a similar problem discussed recently?)

Lars Ivar Igesund


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