Re: [Boost-build] no "sunpro.jam" when building 1.34 w/SunStudio 12 (C++ 5.9) on Solaris 9/Sparc

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-21 01:11:59

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

> 
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:04 PM, West, Larry wrote:
> 
>>> From: Vladimir Prus
>>>> This seems like it must be an error on my part, since it shows up on
>> the
>>>> first "make": bjam errors out immediately saying it can't find
>>>> "sunpro.jam".
>>> ......
>>
>>> Can you try just "sun". In Boost.Build V2 that's how support module
>>> for Sun compiler is called -- after all sun only produces one
>> compiler,
>>> and the branding is not obvious, so "sun" is the one part of the name
>>> we always can be sure of.
> 
> I think it's confusing to have build.sh expect sunpro while the
> toolset name is sun (.jam).  Perhaps we could make these all
> consistent by changing build.sh and build.jam to recognize sun,
> instead of sunpro?

Makes sense. Rene, are you in position to make such a change or should I do it?

- Volodya