Re: [jamboost] building bjam for regression testing with VC7.1 under cygwin

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-14 06:18:57

> I'm running the boost regression tests under cygwin for vc7.1 using
> the "run_tests.sh" script (though I presume that script doesn't fall
> under the purview of this group). In any case, part of that script's
> functionality is to build bjam (apparently every time it runs) and use
> that binary to run the regression tests. To build bjam it executes
> build.sh in the jam_src directory.
>
> Now it appears that this newly-built bjam binary differs from the bjam
> binary I downloaded from the boost website in that the
> prebuilt binary works :). The locally built one results in errors of the
> form:

Yes it will: the shell script will build a cygwin build of bjam which is
only really suitable for use with cygwin builds (because it will use the
cygwin shell to execute commands, and toolsets like vc71-tools.jam expect a
windows shell). If you want to rebuild jam each time you run, then you will
need to use the build.bat batch file rather than the shell script.

John.