Re: [Boost-build] Cannot build a working bjam

From: Boris Gubenko (Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-12 10:58:40

As this thread shows, people are running into this problem over and over again. 
Because of this problem, I myself have to use prebuilt bjam on HP-UX_ia64_gcc.

I think a patch for tools/jam/src/build.jam in

  http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2007/10/17837.php

should be committed to trunk and made part of 1.35. It is confirmed that the 
patch eliminates bjam crash. Once the problem in bjam causing the crash is 
fixed, this workaround can be removed.

Since I was the one who submitted this patch, a usual question: Ok to commit?

Thanks,
  Boris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jürgen Hunold" <juergen.hunold_at_[hidden]>
To: "Boost.Build developer's and user's list" <boost-build_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Cannot build a working bjam

Hi Thomas !

An'n Montag 12 November 2007 hett Thomas Koeller schreven:
> 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:

It would be good to know exactly _which_ x86_64 you have.
Running gcc -v contains enough infos to be sure.

> 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.

Nevertheless, this looks like:
Message-ID: <ffnkoi$e56$1_at_[hidden]>

and the whole thread with
Subject: [Boost-build] Compiling 1.34.1 on OpenSUSE 10.3

The resulting patch against 1.34.1 is attached.

Yours,

Jürgen
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