Re: [Boost-build] boost-build version shipping with boost libraries?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] boost-build version shipping with boost libraries?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-08 21:34:33

AMDG

Sebastian Hauer wrote:
> So far I've been using boost-build-2.0-m12 from the boost build web
> site: http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/index.html
> Yesterday I've been running into build problems porting my project to
> Mac OS X.  I had no issues building boost 1.36 though.  So I checked
> darwin.jam from my 2.0-m12 against whatever version which ships with
> the boost source libraries (which version is this anyway) and noticed
> that they differed quite a bit.
>   

It's the version that ships with 1.36.  I don't know that there is any other
name for it.

> I also noticed the link to boost jam on boost.org
> (http://www.boost.org/users/download/boost_jam_3_1_17).  But no direct
> link to boost build's site at
> http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/index.html itself.
>
> I find this really confusing.  Why is boost-jam shipping separately
> from boost-build and which version is recommended to be used
> (boost-build-2.0-m12,

This one is pretty old.

>  nightly snapshot

May be unstable.

>  or whatever version ships with
> the boost libraries)?
>   

This is probably the best option.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe