From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2008-10-23T01:26:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake: How do I Override Var's Used by a Rule?



On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Brock Rycenga wrote:

> 
> As usual, right after I finally decide to post something to a forum, I 
> trip over an answer myself. I found that this seems to do the trick.
> 
> task :release_build do
>      C_OPTIMIZE_LVL="-o2"
>      C_DEBUG=""
>      Rake::Task[:debug_build].invoke
> end
> 
> Is this a good way to do this? Is there a better one? Should I just stop 
> asking questions and move on?

I'd make them global variables, just to make them stand out, show they
are shared between tasks, but I don't use rake that much at the moment

As to the next question about command line options, then my reading of
rake --help suggests you can't set them from the command line, but you
could set environment vars and read those inside the rakefile.  Or read
a config file with values in it.

> 
> Thanks,
> B
> 
        Hugh