Re: [Boost-build] CVS: boost/tools/build/v2/build project.jam, 1.114, 1.115

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 08:01:56

On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:52, Rene Rivera wrote:

> -JAMROOT = project-root.jam [Jj]amroot [Jj]amroot.jam ;
> +JAMROOT ?= [ peek : JAMROOT ] ;
> +JAMROOT ?= project-root.jam [Jj]amroot [Jj]amroot.jam ;
> +
>  # Loads parent of Jamfile at 'location'. Issues an error if nothing is
> found. rule load-parent ( location )
>  {
> @@ -106,8 +108,8 @@
>
>      if ! $(found)
>      {
> -        ECHO "error: Could not find parent for project at '$(location)'" ;
> -        ECHO "error: Did not find Jamfile or project-root.jam in any
> parent directory." ; +        error "Could not find parent for project at
> '$(location)'" +            : "Did not find Jamfile or project-root.jam in
> any parent directory." ; EXIT ;

This change cause stacktrace to be shown when Jamroot can't be found. Is this 
a desired behaviour?

Users seems to be confused by long stacktrace, and in this case, it's not an 
internal error where stack trace makes sense.

What do you think? 

- Volodya