Re: [jamboost] Re: Solaris jam build

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-07 13:50:39

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
>
> I think we should put it back. I don't mind having mutliple versions of
Jam
> installed (I have 5 so far) but users won't know this and they might
still
> wan't to compile their older programs that might be using the older Boost
> versions.

Hmph. OK. I think there's a small issue of all the bits being used up in
some flags somewhere...
Rene, I assume you're out of time to look at it (?)

> After all you just spent a considerable amount of time changing the load
> behaviour to be backward compatible. Just to have it thwarted by the
missing
> FAIL_EXPECTED ;-)

Actually, there's still an issue. I think I'd need to restore
tools/build/boost-build.jam in order for the new Jam executable to work
with an older version of Boost.Build.

-Dave