Re: [Boost-build] question re V2

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-26 17:29:24

On Monday 11 December 2006 07:35, Robert Ramey wrote:
> in the directory .../libs/serialization/test I have a file Jamfile.v2 which 
> is used for testing the serialization system.  I"m pretty sure it works as 
> it is used for testing the library with boost 1.34
> 
> It is common and convenient for me to run just the serialization library 
> tests.  In V1 I've used:
> 
> bjam --dump-test -sTOOLS=$1 test
> 
> which included in runtest.ksh.  I would like to be able to do the equivalent 
> with V2 and from reading the v2 documentation I expect the command to be 
> something like:
> 
> bjam --v2 toolset=msvc
> 
> I've tried several variations like
> 
> bjam --v2 toolset=msvc test
> bjam --v2 --dump-test toolset=msvc
> bjam --v2 --dump-test toolset=msvc test
> 
> etc.  But I get what to me is a cryptic message:
> 
> warning: Python location is not configured
> warning: the Boost.Python library won't be built
> Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
> Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
> (and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
> ..\..\..\Jamfile.v2:239: in Jamfile</C:/BoostHead>.tag
> rule stage.add-variant-and-compiler unknown in module 

Robert,

this message suggests that the top-level Jamfile.v2 is out-of-date. Please
update all of your CVS HEAD tree, and then try again.

- Volodya