[Boost-build] [PING] How to specify the build bin directory

From: Peter Foley (peter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-12 05:51:10

Hi,

Is it possible for someone else to check the "--build-dir" Boost.Build
option to confirm that it is not a local configuration issue on my end.

If some else can confirm this I will raise a trac ticket.

Thanks,

Peter.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Foley
> Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2007 12:46 AM
> To: boost-build_at_[hidden]
> Subject: RE: [Boost-build] How to specify the build bin directory
> 
> Hi Volodya,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:57:35 +0400
> > From: Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]>
> > Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to specify the build bin directory
> >
> > Peter Foley wrote:
> >
> 
> *SNIP*
> 
> >
> > You can either use 'build-dir' project attribute -- on permanent
> basic,
> > or
> >
> > >
> > > Reading previous messages to the Boost.Build list I believe that
> > "bjam
> > > --build-dir=location" should do the trick.  Other messages suggest
> > that
> > > this is currently broken.
> >
> > ... you can use --build-dir=location on the command line, which use
> to
> > be
> > broken in some corner case but is believed to work now.
> 
> On the off chance that it was the version that I had I have downloaded
> tonight's nightly build.
> 
> If I do a version I get this:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> E:\dev\src\hello>bjam -v
> Boost.Jam  Version 3.1.16. OS=NT.
>    Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc.
>    Copyright 2001 David Turner.
>    Copyright 2001-2004 David Abrahams.
>    Copyright 2002-2005 Rene Rivera.
>    Copyright 2003-2005 Vladimir Prus.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> I have copied the hello example out of the Boost-Build examples folder
> (the folder contains "hello.cpp" and "jamroot").
> 
> When I run the command "bjam --build=here debug" this is the output I
> get:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> E:\dev\src\hello>bjam --build-dir=here debug
> warning: the --build-dir option was specified
> warning: but Jamroot at '.'
> warning: specified no project id
> warning: the --build-dir option will be ignored
> ...found 10 targets...
> ...updating 6 targets...
> MkDir1 bin
> MkDir1 bin\msvc-8.0
> MkDir1 bin\msvc-8.0\debug
> MkDir1 bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi
> compile-c-c++ bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\hello.obj
> hello.cpp
> msvc.link bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\hello.exe
> ...updated 6 targets...
> 
> E:\dev\src\hello>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Did I do something wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter.