[Boost-build] jam0 segmentation fault

Subject: [Boost-build] jam0 segmentation fault
From: Zachary Lund (admin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-02 17:39:12

I've attempted to include Boost.Build in my project outside of boost. 
I've always found that the environment variable "LOCATE_TARGET" appears 
to control where the generated bjam binary goes. Unfortunately, when I 
provide it an absolute path to the location I need it to go into, I get 
a segmentation fault.

I've not tested this much but the test case is to simply call 
"LOCATE_TARGET=${SOMETHING} ./build.sh" where ${SOMETHING} is an 
absolute path to a directory. If you execute with "bash -x" you'll 
probably get something like:

+ ./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root= clean
./build.sh: line 13:  7610 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $@

I'm currently converting the absolute path to a relative as a 
(inconvenient) work-around but thought this was noteworthy.