As far as I&#39;m aware I&#39;m using pretty much a default ubuntu installation with gcc 4.1.2.<br><br>After compiling bjam from sources, using <a href="http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/jam/building.html">these</a> instructions, and running the tests, I get the following failures:
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">root@---------:/usr/local/src/boost/tools/jam/test# sh test.sh <br>--- Testing SHELL builtin...
<br>--- Testing W32_GETREGNAMES builtin...<br>--- Testing var expansion...<br>--- Testing var on target semantics...<br>--- Testing var expansion...<br>var_expand.jam:14: error: [FAILED] (==) &#39;&#39;<br>var_expand.jam:17: error: [FAILED] (==) &#39;&#39;
<br>--- Complete: PASSED(21) *FAILED(2)*<br></blockquote><br>The output from the compilation is below (it seems to work, even with the lists of warnings):<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
root@hallah:/usr/local/src/boost/tools/jam# cd src | sh ./build_dist.sh <br>../../../Jamfile.v2:335: in load-aux<br>rule path.glob-tree unknown in module Jamfile&lt;/usr/local/src/boost&gt;.<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:318: in load-jamfile
<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:68: in load<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:120: in load-parent<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:447: in initialize<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:301: in load-jamfile
<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:68: in load<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:120: in load-parent<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:447: in initialize<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:301: in load-jamfile
<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:68: in load<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:170: in project.find<br>/usr/share/boost-build/build-system.jam:148: in load<br>/usr/share/boost-build/kernel/modules.jam:261: in import
<br>/usr/share/boost-build/kernel/bootstrap.jam:132: in boost-build<br>/usr/local/src/boost/boost-build.jam:9: in module scope<br>cp: cannot stat `html/*&#39;: No such file or directory<br>###<br>### Using &#39;gcc&#39; toolset.
<br>###<br>rm -rf bootstrap<br>mkdir bootstrap<br>gcc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c debug.c execunix.c expand.c fileunix.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c
 option.c parse.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c pwd.c class.c native.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/property-
set.c modules/sequence.c modules/order.c execnt.c filent.c<br>compile.c: In function 'compile_set':<br>compile.c:1151: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type<br>compile.c: In function 'compile_settings':
<br>compile.c:1244: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type<br>./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root= clean<br>...found 1 target...<br>...updating 1 target...<br>
...updated 1 target...<br>./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root=<br>...found 46 targets...<br>...updating 2 targets...<br>[MKDIR] bin.linuxx86<br>[COMPILE] bin.linuxx86/bjam<br>compile.c: In function 'compile_set':
<br>compile.c:1151: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type<br>compile.c: In function 'compile_settings':<br>compile.c:1244: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type
<br>hash.c: In function 'hash_search':<br>hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness<br>hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
<br>hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness<br>hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness<br>hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
<br>hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness<br>...updated 2 targets...<br></blockquote><br>Note that the first 10 or so lines of the output above keep coming up when I&#39;m trying to build other boost libraries. What am I doing wrong?
<br><br>---<br>Darren Garvey<br>