Re: [Boost-build] BJAM reports "error: Unknown target type EXE" in, Ubuntu

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] BJAM reports "error: Unknown target type EXE" in, Ubuntu
From: Alden King (apking_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-17 16:52:54

On 2010-05-22 07:19, Alden King wrote:
 > I'm trying to build the 1.43.0 release from the tarball release.  After
 > untaring I run bootstrap.sh with a user-specific install path.  It
 > reports success with the bootstrap.  When I run bjam, however, I get the
 > "error: Unknown target type EXE" error.  Searching the forums and lists,
 > it looks like this occurred on Windows three years ago, due to paths not
 > being handled correctly.  But I'm running on Ubuntu (9.10).
 > The exact error is:
 >
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/build/type.jam:146: in type.validate from
 > module type
 > error: Unknown target type EXE
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/modules.jam:103: in modules.call-in
 > from module object(installed-exe-generator)@3
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/util/sequence.jam:48: in
 > sequence.transform from module sequence
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/build/generators.jam:227: in
 > generator.__init__ from module object(installed-exe-generator)@3
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/tools/stage.jam:355: in
 > object(installed-exe-generator)@3.__init__ from module
 > object(installed-exe-generator)@3
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/class.jam:88: in new from module class
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/tools/stage.jam:396: in load from module stage
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/modules.jam:283: in import from
 > module modules
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/tools/builtin.jam:25: in load from module
 > builtin
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/modules.jam:283: in import from
 > module modules
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/build-system.jam:11: in load from module
 > build-system
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/modules.jam:283: in import from
 > module modules
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/bootstrap.jam:142: in boost-build
 > from module
 > ~/boost_1_43_0/boost-build.jam:17: in module scope from module
 >
 >
 > Am I misconfiguring something?  If I don't set a user-local path and
 > just run
 >
 > ./bootstrap
 >
 > Then I still get the same error.  I have two versions of bjam (3.1.18 in
 > the distribution and 3.1.16 installed) which I've tried, and they both
 > give me the same error.
 >
 >
 > System:
 > Ubuntu 9.10
 > Kernel 2.6.31-19-generic
 > gcc --version : 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9)
 > bjam 03.1.18 (came with the boost distribution)
 > bjam 03.1.16 (installed on the system)
 >
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Alden
 >
 >
 > PS Sorry if this gets posted twice, mailman wouldn't let me send it
 > unless I subscribed, and I don't know if it held the original or deleted it.
 >

Turns out that the problem was the pathname from which I was running bjam had square brackets in it ('[', ']').  Moving 
to a different directory fixed the problem.

-Alden