[Boost-build] Boost.build bjam build issues in 1.47

Subject: [Boost-build] Boost.build bjam build issues in 1.47
From: Mark E. Hamilton (mhamilt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-05 17:25:35

Hi,

This is somewhat related to Paul Bristow's recent issue. I don't know if 
this is the correct venue for this sort of question; feel free to point 
me elsewhere if it is not.

IAE, I downloaded the boost_1_47_0.zip package because I wanted a clean 
version of bjam to do some experimentation with. I followed the 
installation instructions here:

http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html

(I did check the instructions in the package; they are the same.)

The first failure I had was that bootstrap.sh was not executable. 
However, since I only wanted to build bjam I decided to use the 'If' 
clause on that page and went into the tools/build/v2 directory. In that 
directory bootstrap.sh was also not executable, and also had to have 
dos2unix run on it before I could run it. Once I did that I found that 
engine/build.sh was also not executable, so bootstrap.sh could not 
execute that. Once I fixed that bootstrap.sh generated a bjam which I 
could install and run.

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