Re: [jamming] bootstrapping woes

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-26 11:11:08

Note that if it already tried to run yacc and even marginally succeeded, you
might need to restore your source tree to a pristine state first, since yacc
will overwrite jamgram.* for most values of * ;-)

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Khidkikar, Sanket" <skhidkikar_at_[hidden]>
To: "'David Abrahams'" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>; <jamming_at_[hidden]>
Cc: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: RE: [jamming] bootstrapping woes

> Hi David,
> Sure. I'll be glad to contribute.
> Ok...let me try the setting the YACC var first. If that works, I might be
> okay.
> Sanket
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:david.abrahams_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:58 AM
> To: Khidkikar, Sanket; jamming_at_[hidden]
> Cc: jamboost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [jamming] bootstrapping woes
>
>
> Hi Sanket,
>
> If you are building Boost.Jam, you can keep it from trying to run yacc by
> setting YACC to "" in your environment. This might be tricky (i.e., you
> might need to escape the quotes). On my Win32 system:
>
> make YACC=\"\"
>
> I'm not sure why jam might be dumping core, though.
>
> You might be able to give me enough information to help me help you,
though:
> why not try running jam with -d+5 and sending me the output of that?
>
> If you build jam with CCFLAGS and LINKFLAGS set appropriately for debug
> symbols you could send me a stack backtrace, which would be /really/
> helpful.
>
> -Dave
>
> P.S. We are starting to post pre-built Jam executables at boost. Once we
> figure out how to build Jam for your system, would you consider
contributing
> an executable?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Khidkikar, Sanket" <skhidkikar_at_[hidden]>
> To: <jamming_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:26 AM
> Subject: [jamming] bootstrapping woes
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have problems bootstrapping jam on my QNX 6 system (with no Yacc
> > installed)
> > Here is the story:
> > -I run make
> > -When I get to the point where the jamgram.y is to be parsed to create
> > jamgram.c and jamgram.h (I already have these when I untar the sources)
> > -Complains that yacc is not found..removes the jamgram.c and jamgram.h
> files
> > -Compalins that there is not jamgram.c (and .h) to create jamgram.o
> > ....skipping
> > -Cannot make the archive since jamgram.o is missing
> > -bootstrap is unsuccessful.
> >
> > I tried to bypass this problem by tinkering make1.c
> > That allowed me to make the jam binary. But then ,when I try to use it
to
> > build boost libraries I get "memory fault (core dumped) "
> > Please help!!!
> > Sanket Khidkikar
> >
> >
> >
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