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From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-16 16:22:20


At Monday 2004-02-16 13:22, you wrote:
>Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:
>
> > given that we have a build system, it would be nice if things that needed
> > being rebuild got rebuilt automatically, like the rest of boost.
>
>It would be nice. But it's a bootstrap problem. You need something to start
>the whole process ;-)

yes, but once we've bootstrapped, it would be nice if it continued all by
itself.

> > I have a scheduled task that runs daily at 0300 my time which does (among
> > other things)
> > cd to my boost source location then:
> >
> > cvs -z9 update -A -P -d >> update.log
> > bjam -sTOOLS=vc7.1 install >bjaminstall.log
> > cd status
> > bjam -sTOOLS=vc7.1 >status.log
> >
> > I try to check the output of the logs daily.
> > if this does NOT build the new jam, shouldn't it?
> >
> > ...
> > I also try
> > bjam --v2
> > in both directories
> >
> >
> > if this is insufficient to rebuild bjam, what commands DO I need to add to
> > my daily testing?
>
>This is what I use in my run_builds.bat/run_tests.bat...
>
>REM ~ #
>REM ~ # rebuild bjam if required:
>REM ~ #
>echo building bjam:
>cd %boost_root%\tools\build\jam_src
>set LOCATE_TARGET=bin
>set PATH=C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
>setlocal & endlocal
>call .\build.bat mingw
>@ECHO OFF
>if errorlevel 1 goto :eof
>
>I'm sure you can modify it for your needs.. Like changing to use vc7 instead
>of mingw for building it.

I'll give it a go....thanks

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