Adding flags to dub build

[Jean-Louis Leroy via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 20:00:48 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 19:49:35 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to add a few flags while building with dub. I tried:
>>
>>     DFLAGS='-d-version=explain' dub test ...
>>
>> ...but DFLAGS does not seem to be honored. In fact I wouldn't 
>> mind adding a builtType to my dub.sdl (but then will it be 
>> inherited by the subpackages) but I don't see how to specify 
>> flags there either...maybe because it tries to hide variations 
>> in compiler switches?
>>
>> J-L
>
> Use "dflags" or "lflags" (linker)

It doesn't work either...

dflags='-d-version=explain' dub --vverbose test 
openmethods:benchmarks --build release --force
Using dub registry url 'http://code.dlang.org/'
Refreshing local packages (refresh existing: true)...
Looking for local package map at 
/var/lib/dub/packages/local-packages.json
Looking for local package map at 
/home/jleroy/.dub/packages/local-packages.json
Determined package version using GIT: openmethods 
0.0.1+commit.5.g94ad5a9
Refreshing local packages (refresh existing: false)...
Looking for local package map at 
/var/lib/dub/packages/local-packages.json
Looking for local package map at 
/home/jleroy/.dub/packages/local-packages.json
Collecting dependencies for openmethods
Building package openmethods:benchmarks in 
/home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/
Refreshing local packages (refresh existing: false)...
Looking for local package map at 
/var/lib/dub/packages/local-packages.json
Looking for local package map at 
/home/jleroy/.dub/packages/local-packages.json
Collecting dependencies for openmethods:benchmarks
Adding local /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/
Found dependency openmethods >=0.0.0 @../
Collecting dependencies for openmethods
Checking for missing dependencies.
Configurations used for dependency resolution:
   openmethods (0): [invalid, 0.0.1+commit.5.g94ad5a9]
Interation (ci=0) openmethods invalid (C)
Interation (ci=-1) openmethods 0.0.1+commit.5.g94ad5a9
Refreshing local packages (refresh existing: false)...
Looking for local package map at 
/var/lib/dub/packages/local-packages.json
Looking for local package map at 
/home/jleroy/.dub/packages/local-packages.json
Collecting dependencies for openmethods:benchmarks
Adding local /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/
Found dependency openmethods >=0.0.0 @../
Collecting dependencies for openmethods
Checking for upgrades.
Using cached upgrade results...
Package methods can be installed with version 0.0.1.
Use "dub upgrade" to perform those changes.
Add config openmethods library
Add config openmethods:benchmarks
Including openmethods:benchmarks  -> openmethods library
     openmethods:benchmarks  -> openmethods library
Using configuration 'library' for openmethods
Using configuration '' for openmethods:benchmarks
Add config openmethods library
Add config openmethods:benchmarks application
Including openmethods:benchmarks application -> openmethods 
library
     openmethods:benchmarks application -> openmethods library
Using configuration 'library' for openmethods
Using configuration 'application' for openmethods:benchmarks
Creating build generator.
Add config openmethods:benchmarks application
Add config openmethods library
Including openmethods:benchmarks application -> openmethods 
library
     openmethods:benchmarks application -> openmethods library
Using configuration 'application' for openmethods:benchmarks
Using configuration 'library' for openmethods
Gathering build settings for openmethods:benchmarks (application)
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/benchmarks.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/
Executable configuration "application" of package 
openmethods:benchmarks defines no main source file, this may 
cause certain build modes to fail. Add an explicit 
"mainSourceFile" to the package description to fix this.
Gathering build settings for openmethods (library)
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ source/
Configuration 'application' does not output a library. Falling 
back to "dub -b unittest -c application".
Add config openmethods:benchmarks application
Add config openmethods library
Including openmethods:benchmarks application -> openmethods 
library
     openmethods:benchmarks application -> openmethods library
Using configuration 'application' for openmethods:benchmarks
Using configuration 'library' for openmethods
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ 
source/openmethods.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ source/
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ .
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/benchmarks.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ .
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/benchmarks.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ .
Generate target openmethods:benchmarks (executable 
/home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks openmethods_benchmarks)
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ 
source/openmethods.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ source/
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ .
Generate target openmethods (staticLibrary 
/home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d openmethods)
openmethods: ["openmethods"]
openmethods:benchmarks: ["openmethods:benchmarks", "openmethods"]
Performing "release" build using ldc2 for x86_64.
openmethods 0.0.1+commit.5.g94ad5a9: building configuration 
"library"...
ldc2 -lib 
-of.dub/build/library-release-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc_0-D62368700F7DBA2BBAD9A3866E6CAC78/libopenmethods.a -release -enable-inlining -O -w -oq -od=.dub/obj -d-version=Have_openmethods -Isource/ source/openmethods.d
Copying target from 
/home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/.dub/build/library-release-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc_0-D62368700F7DBA2BBAD9A3866E6CAC78/libopenmethods.a to /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d
openmethods:benchmarks 0.0.1+commit.5.g94ad5a9: building 
configuration "application"...
ldc2 
-ofbenchmarks/.dub/build/application-release-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc_0-843E89F34C0F2CD241BED2A7781E4811/openmethods_benchmarks -release -enable-inlining -O -w -oq -od=.dub/obj -d-version=Have_openmethods_benchmarks -d-version=Have_openmethods -Ibenchmarks/source/ -Isource/ benchmarks/source/benchmarks.d libopenmethods.a
Copying target from 
/home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/.dub/build/application-release-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc_0-843E89F34C0F2CD241BED2A7781E4811/openmethods_benchmarks to /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ 
source/openmethods.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ source/
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/ ~ .
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/benchmarks.d
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ 
source/
Fixing relative path: /home/jleroy/dev/d/methods.d/benchmarks/ ~ .
Running ./benchmarks/openmethods_benchmarks
Using ldc2...
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