Re: [Boost-build] Many lingering v1 dependencies

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-06 16:03:28

On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:58, David Abrahams wrote:
> 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?

That's rather imprecise. If you want *me* to fix that, you'd need to tell me exactly
that the --with-python-root should do. Especially when python is already initalized in
user-config.jam.

> >> $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

That's a question to Doug. If he or you have the time to remove that,
great. Otherwise, we'd have to release what we have.

> 
> >> 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?

That's again a bit indirect wording. I've just did, the result is attached.
I'm gonna provide more thought on this in reply to Thomas.

- Volodya