[boost] Re: [Iostreams] Fails to build on Windows

From: Keith MacDonald (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-05 05:40:28

I wouldn't like to assume any level of knowledge about the file system by 
the average Windows user, but would doubt that such person had the 
competence to use Boost, if they didn't know what a directory is ;-)

The hints now look correct, but the build with MSVC 8.0 fails with this 
error:

F:\CVS\boost\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:1966: in subvariant-target
*** argument error
* rule library-file ( target : sources + )
* called with: ( 
<@boost!libs!iostreams!build\libboost_iostreams.lib\vc-8_0\debug\runtime-link-static>libboost_iostreams-vc80-sgd-1_33.lib 
:  )
* missing argument sources
F:\CVS\boost\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:119:see definition of rule 
'library-file' being called
F:\CVS\boost\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:2403: in stage
Jamfile:195: in load-jamfiles
F:\CVS\boost\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build
F:\CVS\boost\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope

I'm afraid it makes me none the wiser!

- Keith

"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:d7u6t7$8gi$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Keith MacDonald wrote:
>> Have you checked in the changed files, because the build still has
>> the same problems?
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> The changes are apparently not yet available via anonymous CVS.
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>> Incidentally, as this is mainly an issue for Windows users, I suggest
>> you use the term "folder" in the hint, instead of "directory".
>
> Good point, but I stole the language from John Maddock's regex warning:
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>  Building Boost.Regex with Unicode/ICU support disabled.
>  HINT: define the environment variable ICU_PATH to point to the
>  root directy of your ICU installation if you have one.
>  Couldn't find utypes.h in
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>  ******************************************************
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> Apparently I stole the typo, too ;-)
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> I'd like to keep the bjam warnings consitent, if possible. Do you really 
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> some windows developers won't know what a directory is?
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> At any rate, I'd appreciate it if you'd try building Iostreams again when 
> the
> changes show up in CVS.
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> Jonathan
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