Re: [jamboost] peculiarity with target named quote

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 01:53:46

On Thursday 21 October 2004 10:42, Wieger Wesselink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed something very weird when I tried to compile
> a file named quote.cpp with the following rule:
>
> exe quote : quote.cpp : : ;
>
> Then I get an executable that just prints 'BINDIR'. When
> I change it to
>
> exe quote1 : quote.cpp : : ;
>
> everything works as expected.

Please clean everything, run "bjam -n", change Jamfile, run "bjam -n" and 
compare the output from the two "bjam" runs. If there only difference in in 
the name of executable, so problem lies elsewhere.

Do you have a program called "quote" somewhere in PATH, for example?

- Volodya