default_variants per platform

[Randall Wood]

On 12 Jul 2007, at 08:14, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Is it possible to set "default_variants" per platform ?
>
> Basically, I want to set +aqua for platform macosx,
> and +x11 for platform puredarwin or platform freebsd.
> I tried the most straight-forward approach, wrapping
> default_variants in platform, but it didn't work...
>
> For now I made due with "variant aqua requires macosx".
>
> I also seemed to have the misguided notion that the
> default variants would somehow go away when actually
> providing some variants ? Not so, I had to give an
> explicit "+x11 -aqua" to get rid of the defaults...
>
You could try this:

variant aqua conflicts x11 requires macosx {}

variant x11 conflicts aqua {}


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