Re: [jamboost] build failure

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-21 11:47:55

At 11:03 AM 2/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

>> Also, is this the preferred way to build bjam on a Win32 system?
>
> "build.bat"

Thanks! Worked first try.

Shouldn't the .mk files in the builds subdirectory either be fixed or 
removed? Or at least a readme added explaining their status and directing 
people to build.bat?

>[do NOT just type build; it will pick up build.com which is for VMS
>:(]

Just typing "build" (which is really easy to do; years of experience says 
you don't need the .bat) unfortunately doesn't fail immediately. Instead a 
demon appears to seize control of the command window and splatter it with 
hyphens. Eventually it tries to start printing. I killed the command window 
without bothering to see what the printing said.

Maybe rename build.com to vms_build.com to save future users from 
themselves?

--Beman