Re: [jamboost] Re: Solaris jam build

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-07 14:41:26

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>

> No that much time :-( Also in a few hours I'll be in the middle of
hardware
> changes and my email will go away for a few hours.

Fun ;-)

> >> 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.
>
> You sure? After all won't that be the older version if you are building
> against an older Boost?
>
> Or are your talking about building an older Boost with newer Boost.Jam
and
> Boost.Build?

No, you're right. I was thinking of getting the CVS state to work with
older Boost.Jam, actually. I don't really care about that one, though.

-Dave