Re: [boost] Boost.Build is broken?

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Build is broken?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-07 22:18:10

AMDG

On 11/07/2011 10:08 AM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> Steven Watanabe <watanabesj <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> On 11/07/2011 02:52 AM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>> ..\..\..\libs\test\build\Jamfile.v2:110: in modules.load
>>> rule boost-install unknown in module Jamfile</.../trunk/libs/test/build>.
>>
>> This error is specific to Boost.Test, and
>> only occurs when you run bjam in the Boost.Test
>> subdirectories.  
> 
> How come. What so specific about my Jamfiles?
> 

You have a Jamfile in libs/test.  This
shouldn't cause a problem, but it does.

>> I have a fix, but I need
>> to make sure that it doesn't break anything
>> else before I commit it, since it changes
>> the loading of Jamfiles.
> 
> DO you mean changes in Boost.Build?
>  

Yes.

>> I don't think there's much in the way of testing
>> on Cygwin now.  It should be easy to add the
>> name g++-4 into the mix that Boost.Build searches for.
> 
> Name g++ exists in a path. It's just a cygwin symlink. it needs to be made
> aaware about correct name to use instead (depending on which version of gcc is
> installed.
> 
> Interestingly it does not work even if I start bjam from cygwin's bash shell
> (Usually I use shell in Far Manager, which is essentially a Windows shell)
>  

Aha.  It doesn't matter what shell you run
bjam from.  You apparently compiled as a
Windows executable, so it can't execute
cygwin symlinks.  You can try whether
a cygwin build of bjam works.

>>> gcc.archive
>>> ..\..\..\libs\test\build\bin\gcc-4.5.3\
>>> debug\link-static\libboost_unit_test_framework.a
>>>
>>>     "/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ar.exe"  rc .... # list of object files here
>>>     "/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ranlib.exe" ... # lib here
>>>
>>> The system cannot find the path specified.
>>> The system cannot find the path specified.
>>>
>>
>> Do these two executables exist?
> 
> They do, but the same way as with g++ they are symbolic links.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe