Re: [jamboost] build failure, jam/bjam executables out of date?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-21 11:14:53

[2003-02-21] Beman Dawes wrote:

>I tried to build jam/bjam with the following command line:
>
>nmake -f builds\win32-visualc.mk
>
>But got the error below. What am I doing wrong?
>
>Also, is this the preferred way to build bjam on a Win32 system?

The current prefered build for bjam is:

cd BOOST_ROOT\tools\build\jam_src
.\build.bat

And if you want to create a distribution zip archive additionaly do this:

.\build.bat --- dist

This is mostly documented at:

BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/jam_src/readme.html

>The files in http://boost.sourceforge.net/jam-executables/bin.ntx86/ are 
>dated 14 May 2002.
>
>The files in http://boost.sourceforge.net/jam-executables/bin.linuxx86/ are 
>newer, but still not completely current?
>
>Who keeps these up-to-date? Shouldn't these be updated for 1.30.0?

At present no-one keeps them up to date. If you noticed we're trying to move
all bjam distributions to SourceForge.

I keep some of the builds that are in SourceForge up to date. But more help
from people with other platforms would be appreciated ;-)

Also, I don't know if Dave got around to changing docs to point to
SourceForge files downloads... cheking... nope doesn't look like it.

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