RE: [jamboost] Re: Building bjam on Solaris

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-10 11:44:34

I don't understand what's happening in the CVS, apparantly all my
changes (port to sun) have disappeared. I'm having major trouble
contacting the CVS (getting eof constantly). I'll have another look at
it tomorrow morning ;-((

toon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toon Knapen [mailto:toon.knapen_at_[hidden]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:29 PM
> To: jamboost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: RE: [jamboost] Re: Building bjam on Solaris
> 
> 
> 
> > Hmmm. I'll have to figura out another way to check for things
> > in the path :-(
> 
> Well, it's not a show-stopper for me so no rush. 
> 
> 
> > 
> > >> Now for vacpp, I do try and detect it by seeing if 'xlc' 
> is in the 
> > >> path. Is 'xlc' not normally in the path for the 
> compiler? Is there 
> > >> a standard place the compiler is installed? And like above, what 
> > >> does 'uname' return?
> > >
> > >Yes it's in the path. But invoking 'xlc' (without arguments)
> > results in
> > >the man pages being displayed and thus the command never
> > returns unless
> > >hitting 'q' or <space> a few times.
> > 
> > OK. But build.sh doesn't invoke the command (xlc) when
> > checking if it's in the path. Or is it for you, somehow?
> 
> I honestly don't understand what's going wrong. First I'm not 
> great at shell programming, second all these different 
> platforms always behave a /little/ different which makes 
> building reliable scripts very hard. I'm working on automatic 
> scripts to update the boost status pages every night on 4 
> different OS's and it's hard ;-( But again, I don't mind 
> having to specify the extra argument to specify the toolset 
> to be used.
> 
> > >But I've finally succeeded in porting bjam to solaris/sunpro. All
> > >changes are minor including :
> > >
> > >Another remark I have is that filesys.h provides function 
> signatures
> > >for functions that are not defined in filesys.c.
> > 
> > Not sure if that's our fault (Boost.Jam), or Perforce being sloppy.
> 
> Here's another one: builtins.c had it's own signature for 
> regex_compile that does not correspond with the signature in 
> compile.h nor with the implementation in subst.c. So I 
> removed it and included compile.h
> 
> Now finally jam0 gets build on solaris, bjam not yet ;-(
> 
> toon
> 
> 
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