RE: [boost] Re: trouble with generating html compiler status pages

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-05 15:36:38

At 06:20 AM 9/5/2003, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >Indeed case does matter. 'boost_root' however is defined arount line
 >number 10 in the run_tests.sh. Now I start to wonder, would it be better
 >to just rely on BOOST_ROOT (the env.var.) instead of defining boost_root
 >and providing this var to the command line of the 'compiler_status' exe
 >? Beman ?

Sorry, I don't have enough context to answer that, and just this morning I 
again shot myself in the foot on a Unix system, proving yet again that I 
know only enough about Unix shell scripts to be dangerous.

Maybe part of the answer is to add some debugging options to the regression 
test programs. Any ideas?

 >I tried to do that but. On Sun this works fine for instance.
 >On IBM however, I get
 >
 ><quote>
 >/home/tk/boost_regression/boost/status> bjam config_info
 >...found 35 targets...
 >...updating 1 target...
 >MkDir1 ..
 >mkdir: 0635-358 Cannont create ...
 >...: Do not specify an existing file.
 ><unquote>
 >
 >This is really weird. I have not set ALL_LOCATE_TARGET. Anybody any idea
 >what could be going wrong ?

Um... That looks bjam related. Maybe ask on jamboost_at_[hidden]

--Beman