Re: [Boost-build] toolset requirement

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] toolset requirement
From: Deane Yang (deane.yang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-06 23:08:02

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> > 
>> notice: Loading user-config configuration file user-config.jam from 
>> C:/home/deane/user-config.jam . 
> 
> This is the correct user-config.jam?
> 

Arrrgggh. No. So that's why gcc wasn't configured! Thanks very much for 
your help with this.

(mild rant ahead)

I love Boost Build and refuse to use anything else these days, but there 
are a lot of things that are just too well hidden or subtle and that 
burn up a lot of my time trying to figure out. Somehow, the messages 
generated by a regular run of bjam are not very useful (almost all the 
messages refer to code inside Boost Build itself and at most one or two 
lines mention my Jamfiles). I hope that some day y'all figure out how to 
improve that (and the documentation, which seems very badly organized to 
me. I am unable to find anything in it, including things I have found 
before. One specific thing I don't like is that some things are 
presented in the tutorial and then never again. It seems to me that 
*everything*, whether it has been explained in the tutorial or not, 
should be in the main part of the docs and organized in some useful 
(logical?) way.)