Re: [jamboost] bjam trouble while porting Boost to AmigaOS

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-23 13:43:31

Steven Solie wrote:

> I've managed to get bjam v1 ported to AmigaOS but now I'm stuck as to 
> how to control the build process. I'm used to makefiles and such so 
> this whole bjam idea is new to me.
> 
> For example, I want to build the graph library examples. I cd to the 
> examples directory and type bjam but it complains about a missing 
> subproject rule. Seems I can only run bjam from the root of Boost.
> 

If you have a linux or windows box also, it would be a good idea to go 
through the bjam regression tests and examples and try to run them and 
see what happens and compare this to what happens on the 'currently 
supported' platform.

> So how does one control what is and is not built with bjam from the 
> root of Boost?
> 
> I need to tell bjam to ignore some libraries (e.g. threads) which are 
> not ported to AmigaOS but include others. I'm especially interested 
> in building the test suites and examples for my platform.

On a (slightly) related note: is python supported on Amiga ?