[Boost-build] Cannot build a working bjam

From: Thomas Koeller (thomas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-11 19:34:20

Hi,

I wanted to install boost for the first time on my
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu system. I do not get very far,
however, as I cannot build a working bjam. Here's
what happens:

bash-3.2$ bash build.sh
###
### Using 'gcc' toolset.
###
rm -rf bootstrap
mkdir bootstrap
gcc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c debug.c expand.c glob.c hash.c 
hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c 
newstr.c option.c output.c parse.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c 
scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c 
builtins.c pwd.c class.c native.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c 
modules/regex.c modules/property-set.c modules/sequence.c modules/order.c 
execunix.c fileunix.c
./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root= clean
...found 1 target...
...updating 1 target...
...updated 1 target...
./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root=
...found 47 targets...
...updating 2 targets...
[MKDIR] bin.linuxx86_64
[COMPILE] bin.linuxx86_64/bjam
...updated 2 targets...
bash-3.2$ bin.linuxx86_64/bjam --help
Segmentation fault

I then tried to build a debug version of bjam by
giving the '--debug' argument to build.sh. The bjam
executable thus produced seems to run fine, so I
could not use my debugger to investigate the problem.

-- 
Thomas Koeller
thomas at koeller dot dyndns dot org