Re: [jamboost] Problem building bjam using build.jam (VMS)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-16 08:34:41

Johan Nilsson wrote:

> When executing:
>
> $ jam -d9 -fbuild.jam
>
> I get the output included at the end of this mail (excerpts only, sorry
> about the large posting). It seems to repeat iself again and again to a
> greater and greater depth. I'm really lousy when it comes down to jam
> files, but the problems seems(?) to be with the ".mkdir' rule being called
> recursively in the build.jam file.

Johan,
I'd need your help to resolve this. 

1. What's [.bin_vms]? Is it directory called ".bin_vms".
2. What's []? Is the OpenVMS equvivalent of "." (current directory)?
3. What is printed if you run jam on the following code:

p = [.bin_vms] ;
ECHO $(p) ;
p = $(p:P) ;
ECHO $(p) ;
p = $(p:P) ;
ECHO $(p) ;
p = $(p:P) ;
ECHO $(p) ;

Thanks,
Volodya