Re: [jamboost] bjam --v2 isn't working for me

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-03 21:31:12

At Wednesday 2004-03-03 08:19, you wrote:

>Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
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> > I re-built jam and the version didn't change
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>Sure, the the new native rule should be now there.
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> > and what's wrong with 3.1.50?
> > at least we don't think two _different_ things are the same
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>Except that number which increases too often becomes not very meaningfull to
>users. Maybe, we should be using internal "revision" number which is not
>exposed in any way.
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> > I say again... I understand the need to bootstrap, what I don't understand
> > is the need to manually maodify jam...why can't it be done in the build?
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>So, bjam/Boost.Build would have to:
>1. Detect that bjam need to be rebuild, which is not hard
>2. Rebuild bjam
>3. Restart the build using the new bjam. This seems hard.

maybe it's hard, but gnu make managed it back in the mid '80s
that is, if make got re-built it managed to restart w/ the new copy.

>I think that a solution like:
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> cd tools/build/jam_src
> ./build.bat
> cp binntx86/bjam c:/
> cd ../..
> c:/bjam
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>might work just fine inside some bat file.
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>- Volodya
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