Re: boost.build, boost-build.jam

From: Hugo Duncan (hugo.duncan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-22 12:24:39

Dave,

jam0.exe builds fine (msvc and borland), but when running jam0.exe it 
complains that it can not find boost-build.jam (not boost-base.jam).  
I assume this is not supposed to happen.

I am on NT, with cygwin, msvc, borland and gcc.  At the moment, I am 
trying to get jam to compile a gui borland project using dfm files.

Hugo

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> Hi Hugo,
> 
> There should be no complaints about boost-build.jam unless you are 
using the
> "-f allyourbase.jam" option. The jam executable doesn't normally 
look for
> Boost.Build.
> 
> If you are using Windows and have access to VC++, you can check out
> tools/build/jam_src on the jam_src branch. Included is a .bat file 
called
> makedebugjam.bat which builds a debug version of jam.
> 
> Currently the script relies on the presence of cygwin as well, to 
run bison.
> If you need to eliminate the requirement on cygwin,  get rid of the
> definitions of the YACC variable.
> 
> If you want to do a similar thing on other platforms, you can 
follow the
> model in the .bat file. The key thing to notice is that if you're 
starting
> with a make command, you need to define both CFLAGS (for the 
initial make)
> and CCFLAGS (for the jam bootstrap) to enable debugging. I have not 
tried to
> build a debugging version by running jam (instead of make), but it 
should
> work if you supply the important parameters on the jam command-line
> (e.g. -sCCFLAGS=...).
> 
> HTH,
> Dave
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugo Duncan" <hugo.duncan_at_a...>
> To: <boost_at_y...>
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:57 AM
> Subject: [boost] boost.build, boost-build.jam
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In trying out boost.build on one of my projects I have had 
problems
> > with jam crashing.  I think that this is due to the (character)
> > length of the requirements text in my Jamfile.
> >
> > I thought I would build a deug version of jam using the jam_src to
> > have a look at exactly where it is crashing, but while running 
make
> > it complains boost-build.jam is not found.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hugo
> >
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