Re: Solaris jam build

From: cs_jritchie (cs_jritchie_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-08 08:52:02

--- In Boost-Users_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> 
> "cs_jritchie" <cs_jritchie_at_y...> wrote in message
> news:ab96ac+56ob_at_e...
> > I am new to Boost, and only downloaded Jam and Boost yesterday
> > (Monday, May 6, 2002).  Perhaps the removal of FAIL_EXPECTED 
wasn't
> > complete.  Here are the links to the files that I downloaded:
> >
> > www.boost.org/boost_all.tar.gz
> > http://boost.sourceforge.net/jam-executables/bin.solaris/jam.gz
> >
> > I also tried again
> > with 'http://boost.sourceforge.net/release/boost_1_27_0.tar.gz' 
and
> > got the same results...
> 
> Agggh, yes. This is due to the fact that we updated the jam 
executable on
> the website after FAIL_EXPECTED was removed in the CVS... So the 
executable
> you have is compatible with the current CVS state but not with the 
1.27.0
> release. We'll have that fixed in a week at most.
> 
> In the meantime you can do one of the following:
> 
> 1. Use the current CVS state of boost (recommended, though you 
might need
> step 2 as well)
> 2. Rebuild your jam from the sources in 
$(BOOST_ROOT)/tools/build/jam_src by
> invoking make there.
> 
> Sorry for the rough start,
> Dave

I was able to rebuild jam from the source and then able to 
successfully build the Boost libraries.  Thanks for the help.

Jamie