Building jam on the RC_1_28_0 branch

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-14 06:36:49

Hello all,

I just tried to build jam following instructions contained in the
current rc branch. Platform is WIN32-WINNT with MSVC6. This is
what happened:

C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\jam_src>nmake -f builds\win32-visualc.mk

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

cl /nologo /Fejam0 -DNT command.c compile.c execnt.c execunix.c execvms.
c expand.c filent.c fileos2.c fileunix.c filevms.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c he
aders.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c pars
e.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c v
ariable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c pwd.c kernel32.lib
command.c
compile.c
execnt.c
execunix.c
execvms.c
expand.c
filent.c
fileos2.c
fileunix.c
filevms.c
glob.c
hash.c
hdrmacro.c
headers.c
jam.c
jambase.c
jamgram.c
lists.c
make.c
make1.c
Generating Code...
Compiling...
newstr.c
option.c
parse.c
pathunix.c
pathvms.c
regexp.c
rules.c
scan.c
search.c
subst.c
timestamp.c
variable.c
modules.c
strings.c
filesys.c
builtins.c
pwd.c
Generating Code...
attrib -r jambase.c
jam0
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\msvc-tools.jam:133: in Cc-action
*** argument error
* rule vc-set-pdb-file ( targets + : name )
* called with: ( : vc60 )
* missing argument targets
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\msvc-tools.jam:97:see definition of rule
'vc-set-pdb-file' being called
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:598: in Cc
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:1062: in Object
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:1122: in Objects
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:897: in Main
Jamfile:105: in load-jamfiles
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\tools\build\bootstrap.jam:15: in boost-build
C:\src\boost\BO62A4~1\boost\boost-build.jam:2: in module scope
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'jam0' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

Any ideas anyone?

Markus