Re: [jamboost] b-jam build scripts... pass 2...

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-11 18:12:49

Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [2002-11-11] David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Recent changes... this is pass 2.
>>> The bad news... I looked at reading values from the Windows registry and
>>> this is hard enough to make it useless. There is only one readily
> available
>>> way to read them but it means a sequence like:
>>>
> regedit-export--->file--->grep/findstr--->unicode2ascii--->filter-into-BAT
>>
>>Oh, don't worry about that. Rene, this is fabulous! The only thing
>>missing I think is a documentation page which describes all this. Or
>>have you gone ahead and done that as well?
>
> My description was my way of saying that I am not worrying about it ;-)
>
> I haven't done the documentation part yet. But now that the interface is to
> your liking I'll go ahead and do that.

There are some technical problems, still:

$ sh ./build.sh
./build.sh: 11: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Administrator_at_NEFARIOUS /cygdrive/c/boost/tools/build/jam_src
$ bash ./build.sh
###
### Using 'gcc' toolset.
###
rm -rf bootstrap.gcc
mkdir bootstrap.gcc
gcc -o bootstrap.gcc/jam0 command.c compile.c execnt.c execunix.c execvms.c expand.c filent.c fileos2.c fileunix.c filev
ms.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c parse.c pathu
nix.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
./bootstrap.gcc/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc
...found 41 targets...
...updating 3 targets...
.cc bin.cygwinx86/mkjambase
.cc bin.cygwinx86/jam
...

-Dave

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