Re: [Boost-build] bjam failure on trunk

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bjam failure on trunk
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-27 08:00:49

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Prus [mailto:ghost_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:48 AM
> To: boost-build_at_[hidden]
> Cc: Edward Diener
> Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bjam failure on trunk
> 
> On Monday, April 25, 2011 01:29:21 Edward Diener wrote:
> > On 4/24/2011 3:30 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> > > Attempting to run bjam on the trunk, after running bootstrap,bat
> > > from the main directory, gives:
> > >
> > >
C:/Programming/VersionControl/boost/tools/build/v2/build\toolset.jam:38:
> > > in toolset.using
> > > rule auto-index.init unknown in module toolset.
> > >
> C:/Programming/VersionControl/boost/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:888:
> > > in using
> > > C:\Users\eldiener\user-config.jam:99: in modules.load
> > > C:/Programming/VersionControl/boost/tools/build/v2\build-
> system.jam:257:
> > > in load-config
> > > C:/Programming/VersionControl/boost/tools/build/v2\build-
> system.jam:399:
> > > in load-configuration-files
> > > C:/Programming/VersionControl/boost/tools/build/v2\build-
> system.jam:555:
> > > in load
> > > C:\Programming\VersionControl\boost\tools\build\v2/kernel\modules.ja
> > > m:283
> > > : in import
> > > C:\Programming\VersionControl\boost\tools\build\v2\kernel\bootstrap.
> > > jam:1
> > > 42: in boost-build
> > > C:\Programming\VersionControl\sandbox\boost-build.jam:67: in module
> > > scope
> > >
> > > Running tests against the trunk is dead. Please fix.
> >
> > When I removed my 'using auto-index' lines from user-config.jam, the
> > build worked again.
> 
> FAOD, does it mean the problem should be considered resolved?

Would it be better if we made auto-index a 1st class citizen so that it
should always be available?

Several people are using auto-indexing of their docs (including me - and I'm
a big fan of it - in fact it think it should become the rule, not the
exception).

It isn't fully automatic - the author has to make some guesses about what
subjects the user will search for.

But I don't think that any automatically generated index will be useful
anyway - it will have too much 'chaff'.

Personally I don't feel we need a formal review, but others may wish for
this.

Paul

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