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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] boost 1.56 where is 'tools/build/v2' ?
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-25 11:41:48


On 08/25/2014 09:30 AM, Michael Shepanski wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost <at> cs.msu.su> writes:
>
>>
>> On 08/20/2014 09:48 PM, Lars Viklund wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:44:29AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'll see whether I can change that path in docs - it's not Boost.Build
> docs, but the
>>>> getting started guide apparently.
>
> Please do.

Done now.

> (This matters to me because currently my "quince" library is published
> outside of boost, but it uses Boost.Build as its build engine. I refer my
> users to that getting started guide, and they are going to get confused.)
>
>
>>>
>>> Isn't it common to have to find/muck with user-config.jam, which AFAIR
>>> lives in the Boost.Build tree.
>>
>> You can modify project-config.jam in top-level folder that bootstrap.sh
> creates.
>
> I'm not having much luck with that.
>
> My project uses boost, so in the days of 1.55, I had this:
>
> use-project /boost : "C:/local/boost_1_55_0" ;
>
> in my user-config.jam. Now I have this:
>
> use-project /boost : "C:/local/boost_1_56_0" ;
>
> in my project-config.jam and it appears not to be working; i.e. a build
> that used to work fine now breaks, with this output:
>
> error: Unable to find file or target named
> error: '/boost//filesystem'
> error: referred to from project at
> error: '.'
> error: could not resolve project reference '/boost'
>
> I'm probably doing something wrong, but to chase it I will need docs that
> I can trust.

Is this reproducible with a simple project?

Thanks,
Volodya


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