Hi,

I was trying to build something when I didn't have my environment set up correctly. Basically there was a problem initializing the boot system, which the bjam command reported. I tried 'bjam --help', and I got the same error message.

If there is no jamfile, the --help and --version options work fine. But in the case where there is a jamfile or jamroot present, bjam tries to initialize the build system first, before checking for --help or --version. These command line arguments are supposed to only print the corresponding information and nothing else.

So what I would like you to fix is for bjam to check these options on the command line and then exit, before trying to perform the build.

Thanks.

Michael Rolle
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