[BuildTools-tickets] [BuildTools] #9: tried various ways to add -D defines to project -- all seem to fail

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#9: tried various ways to add -D defines to project -- all seem to fail
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 Reporter:  kingaj            |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:          
Component:  component1        |     Version:          
 Keywords:  CXXDEFS for COIN  |  
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 How does one pass in a define statement "-DMYDEF=XX" into a project
 compilation?

 Here are the various ways I tried to do this:
 1) Modify test/Makefile.am -- all changes to this file seem to be
 completely ignored by configure.
 2) Define CXXDEFS in the environment as suggested in config.ac -- this is
 also completely ignored by configure.
 3) Modify coin.m4 so that CXXDEFS is included in DEFS -- this also seems
 to have failed.

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Ticket URL: <https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/ticket/9>
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