Re: [boost] how to build boost with jam

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-20 07:55:42

Sorry, John, I had a bad day yesterday.

In your first command-line, you left off the ".jam":

> [root_at_pelican] ~/links/flx/boost/build>jam -fallyourbase.jam
                                                          ^^^^

Doing that will just test the build system. Don't expect it to build boost;
not enough people have adopted the build system yet for it to do that.

The one that "did something" should be building and testing Boost.Python.
You obviously have a different Python installed than I do, or it's installed
in a nonstandard location. The Python Jamfile uses the following by default:

    PYTHON_INCLUDES ?= <include>/usr/include/python1.5  ;
    PYTHON_LIBS ?=  /usr/lib/python1.5/config/libpython1.5.a ;

You can customize this to do the right thing for your installation by
suppying

    -sPYTHON_INCLUDES=... -sPYTHON_LIBS=...

on your jam command-line.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] how to build boost with jam

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Max Skaller" <skaller_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [boost] how to build boost with jam
>
>
> > David Abrahams wrote:
> > >
> > > for example,
> > >
> > > cd build
> > > jam -fallyourbase.jam
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > cd libs/python/build
> > > jam -f../../../build/allyourbase.jam
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > [root_at_pelican] ~/links/flx/boost/build>jam -fallyourbase
> > allyourbase: No such file or directory
> > don't know how to make all
> > ...found 1 target...
> > ...can't find 1 target...
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I have no idea what I'm doing or how jam works :-)
>
> C'mon, give me a break. Instead of flailing about trying other things,
> please try the directions I gave exactly as I gave them.
>
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