Re: [Boost-build] Many lingering v1 dependencies

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-06 09:58:03

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Sunday 10 December 2006 17:33, David Abrahams wrote:
>> 
>> I keep seeing BBv1 dependencies in our supposedly-v2 scripts,
>> Jamfiles, and documentation.  For example $BOOST_ROOT/Jamfile.v2 uses
>> the --with-python-root option to set the PYTHON_ROOT variable, which
>> has no effect in v2.  
>
> This specific issue is:
>
> 	https://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/boost.build/ticket/61
>
> I'm don't know what's right solution to it, do you?

Get the person who wrote the Jamfile to remove the v1 idioms?

>> $BOOST_ROOT/configure isn't designed to work with BBv2 it seems.
>
> I think it works now.

Maybe.  It's still doing all this Python version detection that is
already done by python.jam

>> http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/more/separate_compilation.html
>> still needs to be updated for BBv2.  
>
> Is there a ticket for it?

I don't know.  Is it a BB issue?

>> I'm concerned that many more instances of this problem may exist,
>> and I'm not sure how to resolve them.  Is there a reasonable
>> automated search we could use?
>
> I don't know, maybe "grep bjam".

I s'pose.  Who is going to inspect the results?

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Dave Abrahams
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