Re: Boost-Build in Windows Doesn't work

From: chyipin (chyipin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-27 18:12:04

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_r...> wrote:
> [2003-10-27] chyipin wrote:
> 
> >--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_r...> 
wrote:
> >> [2003-10-27] chyipin wrote:
> >> 
> >> >Retrieving the latest version of boost from 
> >> >boost-consulting.com is not working, the cvs process stops 
after 
> >> >retrieving the libs folder (i.e., died while retrieving 
> >> >boost/libs/utility/tmpw2001-paper/ )
> >> >
> >> >I retrieve the latest version of boost from 
> >> >cvs.boost.sourceforge.net, but the latest build doesn't work. 
> >CALC 
> >> >referenced in numbers.jam is unknown. 'calc' doesn't exists on 
> >all 
> >> >systems (calc also doesn't exist on most versions of unix-type 
> >> >OSes). I'm trying to use boost in a windows machine. Please 
> >help.
> >> >
> >> >I can't even get bjam --version to display properly.
> >> 
> >> Rebuild bjam from the sources you just got.
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >I did rebuild bjam from the sources.
> 
> Which sources? What does "bjam -v" say for you?
> 
> >What I got now:
> >C:\boost> bjam --v2 --version
> >error: Boost.Jam version 3.1.5 or later required
> >C:\boost\tools\build> bjam --v2 --version
> >error: Boost.Jam version 3.1.7 or later required
> 
> 
> PS. The CALC mentioned above has nothing to do with Unix. It's a 
bjam
> builting we added last week. Hence the need to use a bjam built 
from CVS
> when using source from CVS.
> 
> 
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Boost.Jam Version 3.1.4. OS=NT.
Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc.
Copyright 2001 David Turner.
Copyright 2001-2002 David Abrahams.

It seems that the bjam from CVS is not the correct version. Where 
can I get version 3.1.7?

On a linux machine, I got the CALC error:
/ennfs/csc/cscgrd/cplim/boost_new/boost/tools/build/new/numbers.jam:40
: in numbers.increment
rule CALC unknown in module numbers.