Re: [jamboost] building in boost-sandbox

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-05 10:11:46

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

> I've added the preliminary BLAS bindings for uBLAS in the boost-sandbox
as
> discussed with Joerg and Jeremy.
>
> But also a small library should be build which should be linked with. I
tried
> to add a boost-build.jam in the top-dir of the boost-sandbox

I understand that part

> and would define
> the BOOST_ROOT path as being the 'pwd' and next go to my
boost-install-dir

I don't understand that part. What exactly did you do?

> but that did'nt work,

What exactly happened?

> neither did setting the BOOST_ROOT env.var. in the
> shell.
>
> I got following error (note that the second line is just an echo of the
> $(BOOST_ROOT) in boost-build.jam to verify if it takes the correct path).
>
>
>
> poisson:/usr/local/boost-sandbox-tknapen/boost-sandbox >bjam
> /usr/local/boost
> Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find build system.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/local/boost-sandbox-tknapen/boost-sandbox/boost-build.jam attempted
to
> load the build system by invoking
>
> 'boost-build tools/build ;'
>
> but we were unable to find "bootstrap.jam" in the specified directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> or in BOOST_BUILD_PATH (searching
> /usr/local/boost-sandbox-tknapen/boost-sandbox/tools/build).

I would have thought that was a very clear error message. I don't know how
to help you further, other than to suggest you consult:

www.boost.org/tools/build/build_system.htm#jambase_replacement

> Please consult the documentation at 'http://www.boost.org'.

Ditto ;-)

-Dave