Re: Non-portable paths in bbv1

From: Johan Nilsson (johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-30 04:31:14

"Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:cgulqm$oqd$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Hi Johan,
>
> >>

[snip]

>
> Maybe, it would make sense to go right to V2. It has an abstraction for
> paths (in tools/build/v2/util/path.jam) which is used everywhere and might
> make the task of VMS support simpler. You'd only need to add routines to
> path.jam that handle conversion from VMS syntax to portable syntax and
back
> (in addition to making bootstrap works).

I already got bootstrapping to work (if you're talking about building
jam0.exe + jam -fbuild.jam) with some minor modifications to sources,
build_vms.com and build.jam.

// Johan