Re: [boost] [1.39.0] Ready for beta?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.39.0] Ready for beta?
From: jbosboom_at_[hidden]
Date: 2009-04-23 02:05:54

Eric Niebler wrote:
> Under cygwin, ./bootstrap.sh seems to build bjam successfully.

When I try it in cygwin in ~/boost/, two errors are printed to the console
before the "detecting Python, Unicode for regex, making Boost.Build
config, etc" text:

$ ./bootstrap.sh
Building Boost.Jam with toolset gcc... ./bootstrap.sh: line 219: cd:
/home/Jeffrey: No such file or directory
./bootstrap.sh: line 220: cd: ./tools/jam/src: No such file or directory
tools/jam/src//bjam
cp: cannot stat `./tools/jam/src//bjam': No such file or directory

This is probably because my Windows username, and thus my cygwin home
directory, contains a space (it's "Jeffrey Bosboom"), and the argument to
cd wasn't properly escaped.  I couldn't run ./bjam --help at that point,
as it didn't get copied.  I re-extracted the 7z-ball to /tmp/boost/ and
bootstrap.sh ran without error.

> The user
> is then instructed to type ./bjam --help to get command line help. This
> outputs:
>
> Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12)
> Boost.Jam 03.1.17
>
> ... and then bjam just hangs and pegs the CPU! Can somebody else
> corroborate?

./bjam --help runs fine for me.  You might want to try rebasing the Cygwin
DLLs, which seems to be the magic fix for weird problems like this. 
(Close all Cygwin processes, run /bin/ash.exe (from the Windows graphical
shell or Start --> Run...), /bin/rebaseall .)  Apparently the Cygwin
dynamic loader is broken; I had to do this to run perl.exe a while ago and
hence I don't encounter the problem when running bjam.  This is just
speculation, though.

Building seems to go okay.  It does print "Building C++ Boost" at the
beginning, which is a bit confusing (there are no other Boosts, are
there?), and the warnings about missing optional features should say "if
you don't need this feature, you can safely ignore this warning" rather
than just "this is optional".  I don't have the cycles to spare to build
it all right now, but if you want me to try one particular target or such,
let me know.

--Jeffrey Bosboom