Re: [jamboost] Warnings with older bjam, failure with current bjam?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-30 21:04:08

From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>

> Although the jam regression tests still seem to be working when run with
a
> version of bjam built May 6th, I'm getting the following warnings
repeated
> many times for each run:
>
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\testing.jam:78: in failed-test-file
> warning: unknown rule FAIL_EXPECTED
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\testing.jam:251: in build-test
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\boost-base.jam:1665: in subvariant-target
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\boost-base.jam:1737: in main-target
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\boost-base.jam:1303: in declare-local-target
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\testing.jam:50: in boost-test
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\testing.jam:375: in link-fail
> Jamfile:49: in load-jamfiles
> C:\boost\site\tools\build\bootstrap.jam:15: in boost-build
> C:\boost\site\boost-build.jam:2: in module scope
> ...
>
> Is this a known problem? Or am I doing something wrong?

FAIL_EXPECTED was taken out of the codebase temporarily but reintroduced
for 1.28.0. The version of bjam available on the website will work.

> The command line was: bjam -sRUN_ALL_TESTS=1 -sTOOLS="metrowerks" test
>
> Thinking there might have been changes to bjam, I rebuilt it from the
> current CVS state. But that bjam doesn't work at all:

What command did you use to try to build it?

> boost-build.jam: No such file or directory
> don't know how to make test
> ...found 1 target...
> ...can't find 1 target...
>
> Is this a known problem?

No.