Re: Re: build setup - what have I missed?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-09 22:57:41

<dick.bridges_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:OF7F2931E0.736DAC3F-ON88256BB4.0075913F_at_tais.net...
>
> Ok.  I went back and built bjam and jam from .\tools\build\jam_src.  Then
I
> tried:
>       /path-to-jam/jam -sBOOST_ROOT=. sTOOLS=msvc
You're missing a '-' here --------------^

> and got:
> <result>
> Couldn't find Python 2.1 installation in c:/tools/python
> skipping Boost.Python library build
> You can configure the location of your python installation, by setting:
> PYTHON_ROOT - currently "c:/tools/python"
> PYTHON_VERSION - currently "2.1"
>
> The following are automatically configured from PYTHON_ROOT if not
> otherwise set
>     PYTHON_INCLUDES    - path to Python #include directories; currently
>     PYTHON_LIB_PATH    - path to Python library; currently
> "c:/tools/python/libs" "c:/tools/python/PCBuild"
>     PYTHON_STDLIB_PATH - path to Python standard library modules;
currently
> "c:/tools/python/Lib"
>
> Should I just wait for the 1.28.0 pre-build Jam executables (and
associated
> instructions) to be posted?

No, just follow the directions you've got <0.5 wink>

-Dave