Re: [Boost-build] <install-dependencies>on still broken

From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-19 09:16:21

Hi Dirk !

Sorry for being late on this one.

On Monday 19 May 2008, Dirk Griffioen wrote:
> Hi Vladimir
>
> > You need to provide some more specifics.

Well, this one is tricky ;-))

> It is difficult to recreate the actual case, as it only happens with
> the big source tree we have here ('good case! you might say).

This sounds familiar. I had the same problems until Jurko fixed a 
seemingly unrelated issuse with
 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/44195

See http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2008/04/18737.php for the 
discussion.

> The simpeler case (as attached) works fine, however, in our 'real'
> tree we use a lot of aliases and have a lot of targets in our source
> tree - bjam spans both boost and our own.

Same here :-))

> I feel it is not somuch the amount of sources we have, but the
> jamfiles might be too complex (there's bison and lex & custome
> generators too).
>
> I will investigate further, as I need this functionality.

Please try the current bjam from trunk.

I have reactivated <install-dependencies> and everything works...

Yours,

Jürgen
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