Re: [jamboost] Re: Building bjam on windows?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 08:16:42

Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> [2003-03-20] Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>> 
>>>>I tried it on NT4SP6. Can't tell you the shell version right now because 
>>>>I'm at home and not at the office. I will have a look first thing 
>>>>tomorow morning.
>>>
>>>The shell version is 4.0 (from the version tab of 
>>>c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe).
>>>
>>>I just tried it with and without the command extensions but no luck.
>> 
>> Darn :-(
>> 
>> I've made some minor changes that might help. Could you try out the attached
>> build.bat?
>
> Sorry for the delay...
>
> The bad news: I just tried it and it still doesn't work. The good 
> news: It fails later...
>
> The command line used was ".\build.bat vc7"
>
> Attached is the debug output of the script.
>
> I'm sorry to tell you that this is my last day where I have access to 
> WinNT 4.0 so I won't be able to test any further. Sorry about that.
>
> Markus

I'm no expert on .bat or Rene's intentions, but I guess that the
problem is here:

if "_%_known_%_" == "__" (
call :Error_Print "Unknown toolset: %BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET%"
)
if errorlevel 1 goto Finish

Since the first test fails, I wouldn't be surprised if we had
errorlevel 1 afterwards. It seems to me that we should just comment
out line 256 (the last one above). Markus, if you do that, does
everything work?

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Dave Abrahams
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