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

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-23 21:29:27

Steven Solie wrote:

> I've managed to get bjam v1 ported to AmigaOS 

Nice... my preferred platform ;-) Too bad my 4000T is now less powerful 
than my VCR :-(

>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.

It's not supposed to be complaining. Do you have the entire Boost tree? 
Specifically do you have the "[boost-root]/tools/build/v1" directory? 
What is the exact error message? What directories does it say it search 
for the Boost.Build system? Perhaps the directory searching is broken on 
AmigaOS.

If you do have the build/v1 directory, try adding it to the build search 
path to see if you get a different result. For example:

bjam -sBOOST_BUILD_PATH=/some/place/boost/tools/build/v1 ...

> So how does one control what is and is not built with bjam from the 
> root of Boost?

Just as you did. And you can also use the "--without" options to exclude 
libraries you don't want built, but that doesn't help for the examples. 
And in the next release there is also a "--with" option to only build 
specified libraries.

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