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

Subject: Re: [boost] b2 looks for tools/inspect/build/Jamfile
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-22 10:57:59

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> AMDG
>
> On 05/21/2016 07:19 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > I'm experimenting with a partial Boost clone, the superproject,
> > tools/build, libs/bind, libs/config and few others, and when trying to
> > build the tests, I'm getting the following error:
> >
> > D:\tmp\boost\libs\bind\test>..\..\..\b2 toolset=msvc-10.0
> > D:/tmp/boost/tools/build/src/build\project.jam:262: in find-jamfile from
> > module
> > project
> > error: Unable to load Jamfile.
> > error: Could not find a Jamfile in directory
> > '../../../tools/inspect/build'.
> > <snip>
> > Does anyone have an idea why b2 looks for the tools/inspect Jamfile? I
> > don't remember this being a problem before when I tried a stripped-down
> > installation.
> >
> >
>
> I seem to recall that someone (Beman maybe?) used
> inspect in his test Jamfile.
>

Yes, but that ended up being a failed experiment, so you can remove the
dependency as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks,

--Beman