Re: [jamboost] bjam use help

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-01 21:18:16

Lucas Vickers wrote:
> I think I need to edit the "/home/poobarr/boost_1_32_0/boost-build.jam" 
> file or the "/home/poobarr/Bayes++/Jamfile.v2" file, but I am confused.
> 
> Thank you for the development and for your time.
> Sorry if this is the wrong group but I think this is more of a bjam 
> issue than boost issue.

Your are mostly at the right place.. In order to really help you though 
we'd need to know what you are using to build the Bayes++ project. From 
your mention of "/home/poobarr/Bayes++/Jamfile.v2" it seems to have a 
BBv2 project. But does it also have a BBv1 "Jamfile"? Are there 
instructions with the Bayes++ project on how to build? Is there a 
Bayes++ group/maintainer you can ask?

A few minutes later.. Answering some of my own question after looking up 
the Bayes++ project..

Looks like the newest version is BBv2 only. So at minimum you'll have to 
do "bjam --v2" to get the BBv2 functionality.

You might want to read some of the BBv2 documentation..

http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v2/index.html
Boost Build System V2

Specifically this.. and the part about boost-build.jam file..

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html
Chapter 19. Installation

Since Bayes++ looks like it uses header only Boost libraries you: a) 
don't need to build the Boost libraries that have source, b) it really 
doesn't matter where you put the Boost headers.

And looking at the Bayes++/Jamfile.v2 all you should need to set is 
"-sBOOST=/usr/local/include/boost-1_32/".

HTH.

PS. It looks like the docs on the Bayes++ web page are out of date.

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