Re: [jamboost] Startup tests now pass

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-13 23:20:10

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

> On 2002-05-13 at 10:44 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams) wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
> >
> >> Just do a "./bin.linuxx86/jam rpm". It copies the RPMs into the
jam_src
> >dir.
> >> The only other special thing to make sure of is to build with an early
> >> version of RedHat, like 7.1. Otherwise the binary might not run on
later
> >> versions.
> >
> >Well, I have a debian system here, and the RPM doesn't even build using
the
> >Jamfile on my system (I don't have any /usr/src/REDHAT directory, to
start
> >with) so I'll have to wait for someone else to do it.
>
> I'll build those then.

Thanks!

> >> I'll put up the PPC version in a few :-)
> >
> >I'm not sure I understand what we're doing with the .gz files. Is the
plan
> >to gzip the bjam hardlink? Since that makes sense to me, that's what
I'll
> >do.
>
> Yea, just gzip the bjam (gzip -f bjam).
>
> I noticed one thing though... "jambase.c" doesn't seem to match
"Jambase".

Very nice catch! I committed the difference.
Fortunately it makes little difference, since jambase.c is rebuilt during
bootstrap.