Re: [boost] bjam instruction-set specific build

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-01 09:58:38

From: "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]>

> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 15:58, David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> > Oh, whoops! The problem is in the way you specified BUILD. Should be:
> >
> > "-sBUILD=debug <architecture>x86 <instruction-set>pentium4"
>
> using this results in following error
> poisson:/home/tk/boost/boost/libs/python/build >bjam -sTOOLS=gcc
> "-sBUILD=debug <architecture>x86 <instruction-set>pentium4"
> don't know how to make <architecture>x86
> don't know how to make <instruction-set>pentium4
> ...found 2 targets...
> ...can't find 2 targets...

I think this is because I never understood how to do unix shell quoting
properly. What I want is a single argument to the bjam tool which contains
the entire string:

    -sBUILD=debug <architecture>x86 <instruction-set>pentium4

(including spaces) Find out how to do that, and everything should work.

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