Re: [Boost-build] [boost] Errors in "getting started" documentation

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [boost] Errors in "getting started" documentation
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-07 12:50:03

At Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:44:33 +0300,
Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
> 
> > At Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:44:04 +0000,
> > Daniel James wrote:
> >> 
> >> This was posted to the developer list:
> >> 
> >> On 12 February 2011 23:11, Loïc Joly <loic.actarus.joly_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I recently upgraded to the 1.45 version on windows, with VC++2010. I noticed
> >> > several errors in the documentation. I think they are really important,
> >> > because installation is the first thing people will ever encounter from
> >> > boost, and if the installation procedure is buggy, people might decide not
> >> > to look any further.
> >> >
> >> > http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#get-bjam
> >> >
> >> > If we get a prebuild bjam program, the compilation step will fail. We need
> >> > to get a bjam by executing the bootstrap file in the distribution, not by
> >> > downloading it.
> >> >
> >> > http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html#bbv2.reference.tools.compiler.msvc
> >> 
> >> What should we do about this?
> > 
> > I don't know if this is still a problem, but it seems to me that as
> > long as Boost is distributing a pre-built bjam, that bjam should be
> > able to compile the latest Boost release.  If it cannot, we should
> > either update it immediately or stop distributing the pre-built
> > executable.
> 
> We don't distribute a pre-built bjam; I plan to update getting started to remove
> references to pre-built jam before 1.46.1.

Great; thanks for staying on top of this!

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Dave Abrahams
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