Re: [jamboost] Packaging of bjam, plus questions about next release

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-23 04:23:15

On Friday 22 July 2005 23:58, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:58:07PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > document telling people to get the latest stuff from CVS.
> >
> > In early August I hope.
>
> Cool, that's only 1.5 weeks away :)

Yea ;-)

> > RPM should be no harder, but I no longer have RPM system around,
> > so can't test.
>
> Do you have a Linux system? Most Linux systems these days
> have RPM except for Debian....and on Debian, you can install the 'rpm'
> Debian package, which is supposed to give you rpmbuild.

Ah.. but I can't install the produced package to test it, that's the problem. 
Well, there is *some* mechanism, but I never tried it.

> > One question is whether site-config.jam or user-config.jam should
> > contains 'using gcc ; ' already, or expect the users to add it. I'd be
> > inclided to say we need "using gcc ; ".
>
> What is the behavior of Boost.Build if your user-config.jam is empty?
> If it doesn't do the right thing, then I would agree with you and
> say "using gcc ; " is needed in user-config.jam as part of a package.

Ok.

- Volodya

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