Re: [jamboost] bjam --version

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-28 17:09:45

At Thursday 2003-08-28 02:46, you wrote:
>Hi Victor,
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> > ok, where's the option that says "give me the version of bjam"?
>
> bjam -v
Thanks
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> > on a Windows XP system.
> > and then compile several of our current projects against the new results.
> > if this does NOT build a new Boost.Build and Boost.Jam then maybe we should
> > rethink (or at least restate) what "building boost" means.
>
>The above is fine for Boost, but CVS HEAD of Boost.Build V2 requires CVS HEAD
>of Boost.Jam. So, you should run boost_root/tools/build/jam_src/build.bat and
>use the binary that is created.

Ok, just did that, added a "copy to a directory in my path" to the end of 
the .bat file (hmmm, probably not a GOOD thing, since I now won't get 
updates to the .bat file)..... <sigh> then went to my boost root and typed

bjam --v2 >>bjamv2.log

I get warnings about flex and bison being "not found". I guess I'll have 
to go get them from someplace.
Something I don't understand here.... if I just build boost using the 
normal bjam "-sTOOLS=VC7.1" it works, the v2 seems to want some new tools 
that I should get.

Thanks for the assistance. BTW, is this building a different collection of 
things that the v1 build? I ran it on the same sources, and it tried to 
build several (many?) things.

> > Do I need special things to build build and jam? why?? if they're part of
> > boost, the "build all" should do it, right?
>
>Well, 
><http://www.boost.org/tools/build/index.html>http://www.boost.org/tools/build/index.html 
>mentiones that you have to
>install Boost.Jam before building boost. For building boost, prebuilt
>packages exists. For testing V2, one has to compile Boost.Jam from sources.
>
>- Volodya
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