Re: [boost] b2 looks for tools/inspect/build/Jamfile

Subject: Re: [boost] b2 looks for tools/inspect/build/Jamfile
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-21 16:49:08

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On 21/05/2016 16:51, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > Steven Watanabe wrote:
> >> > Does anyone have an idea why b2 looks for the tools/inspect Jamfile?
> >>
> >> I seem to recall that someone (Beman maybe?) used inspect in his test 
> >> Jamfile.
> >
> > No, it's probably this part of Jamroot:
> >
> > if [ path.exists $(BOOST_ROOT)/tools/inspect ]
> > {
> >    use-project /boost/tools/inspect : tools/inspect/build ;
> > }
> >
> > tools/inspect does exist as an empty directory in a freshly cloned 
> > superproject. This should probably be
> >
> > if [ path.exists $(BOOST_ROOT)/tools/inspect/build ]
>
> Fair enough; I've pushed such a change to develop - could you give it a 
> try?

Seems to work now, thanks.

I'm setting up Travis/Appveyor and trying to keep the submodules to the 
minimum necessary:

https://github.com/boostorg/core/blob/develop/.travis.yml

which is how I spotted it.

There's one additional problem, Boost.Build requires Boost.Config to be 
present:

error: Could not find a Jamfile in directory 
'libs/config/checks/architecture'.

This is mostly theoretical, because the only library that doesn't need 
Config anyway is Predef, but it still feels a bit wrong. :-)