Re: [jamboost] Re: Boost.Build V2, Milestone 6 released

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-17 03:17:54

At Friday 2003-08-15 23:51, you wrote:
>David Abrahams wrote:
> > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> > that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel as well.
> >
> > "Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
> > > I finally had some time to try this out ... the .zip flavor:
> > > and came away confused
> > > =========
> > > Installation...step 2.
> > >
> > > >>Place the Boost.Jam binary, called "bjam" or "bjam.exe", somewhere
> > >
> > > in your PATH. Verify that correct bjam is being executed by running
> > > "bjam --version". You should get
> > >
> > > Boost.Build V2 (Milestone N)
> > >
> > > not what I get. bjam starts running and complains about syntax
> > > errors...
> >
> > Yeah, I just posted about this on the jamboost list. You probably
> > ought to be posting there.
>
>Wierd. The boost-build.jam in "." should be found first and invoke V2
>bootstrapping.
>
> > > even when I get it building boost (V1 by default) it never
> > > gives me a version.
> > > ============
> > > Installation---step 3
> > >
> > > >>Configure toolsets to use. Open new/user-config.jam file and follow
> > >
> > > instructions there to specify what compiles/libraries you have and
> > > where they are located.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what "instructions" are being referred to here..
> >
> > Likewise. Those instructions need to be written
>
>Well... there are some comments telling how to configure things.
>
> > > but I un commented the line saying: using msvc;
> > >
> > > ============
> > > Installation...step 4
> > >
> > > >>You should now be able to go to examples-v2/hello, and run bjam
> > >
> > > there. A simple application will be built. You can also play with
> > > other projects in examples-v2
> > >
> > > C:\Projects\boost\boost-build\examples-v2\hello>bjam
> > > C:/Projects/boost/boost-build/tools\boostbook.jam:86: in boostbook.init
> > > *** argument error
> > > * rule path.make ( native )
> > > * called with: ( )
> > > * missing argument native
> > > C:/Projects/boost/boost-build/new\path.jam:42:see definition of rule
> > > path.make' being called
> > > C:/Projects/boost/boost-build/new\toolset.jam:22: in using
> > > C:\Projects\boost\boost-build\examples-v2\../new\user-config.jam:58:
> > > in modules.load
> > > C:/Projects/boost/boost-build\build-system.jam:55: in load
> > > C:\Projects\boost\boost-build\examples-v2\..\kernel\modules.jam:296: in
> > > import
> > > C:\Projects\boost\boost-build\examples-v2\..\kernel\bootstrap.jam:122: in
> > > boost-build
> > > C:\Projects\boost\boost-build\examples-v2\boost-build.jam:2: in module
> > > scope
> >
> > I think version 1.6 of tools/build/tools/boostbook.jam fixes this
> > problem, though it's tagged as being part of Milestone 6 so I can't
> > be sure. It works for me now.
>
>It does not work from release tarball, just because Boost.Build tarball does
>not include BoostBook files. OTOH, release tarball also does not configure
>boostbook in user-config.jam, so I think something is wrong with installation.
>Victor, did you install Boost.Build tarball over CVS tree of Boost?

yes, I routinely (daily) do a cvs -dblah.... -A -d -P update for boost
and I built it in that tree (that's the only copy of boost I have)

> > > I'm clueless
> > > ============
> > > build boost:
> > > C:\Projects\boost>bjam --version --v2 "-sTOOLS=vc7.1"
> > > C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\kernel\modules.jam:203: in
> > > normalize-raw-paths rule NORMALIZE_PATH unknown in module modules.
> > > C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\kernel\modules.jam:252: in import
> > > C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\kernel\bootstrap.jam:50: in boost-build
> > > C:\Projects\boost\boost-build.jam:12: in module scope
> > >
> > > Was I supposed to copy more of the files someplace??
> >
> > Err. No. You're mixing v2 and v1 invocation styles. You don't use
> > -sTOOLS with v2.
>
>Uhm... I think the problem here is that Victor downloaded M6 release of boost
>build and build jam from that version. But from the error message and
>directory names above I guess that he's running that bjam against CVS HEAD of
>Boost.Build.
>
>Victor, if that's the case, you should rebuild jam from CVS. Both Boost.Build
>and Boost.Jam must be from the same time to work reliably. Either from some
>release of from the same CVS state.
>
>- Volodya
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