Re: [jamboost] bjam --version

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 02:41:31

Hi Victor,

Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:
> 1) --version ALL by itself should return the version NO MATTER WHAT!!
> don't give me this junk about "wrong directory"

It's simply not possible. "--version" means "give me version of build system 
used". It can only work if bjam can find the build system and it does 
supports --version. V1 does not. It can be changes, but in general, running

bjam --version

from arbitrary place of filesystem cannot work.

> 2)
> C:\Projects\boost>bjam --v2 --version
> 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
>
> 3)
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\examples-v2>bjam --v2 --version
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\examples-v2\..\kernel\modules.jam:203: in
> normalize-raw-paths
> rule NORMALIZE_PATH unknown in module modules.
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\examples-v2\..\kernel\modules.jam:252: in
> import
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\examples-v2\..\kernel\bootstrap.jam:50: in
> boost-build
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\examples-v2\boost-build.jam:2: in module
> scope
>
> Happy??

No, not really. I believe your bjam version is out of date. As I've said in 
previous email:

>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.

> 4) bjam is broken

I don't think this statement is true.

- Volodya