Re: [Boost-users] Re: bjam: rule SubInclude unknown in module Jamfile

From: Andre Stechert (andre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-07 20:59:47

Thanks very much for the prompt and spot-on answer.

cd /opt/local/bin
sudo ln -s bjam jam

followed by the usual darwinports build commands worked very nicely.  
The /opt/local/... stuff is a darwinports-ism.

Cheers,
Andre

On Mar 7, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Andre Stechert wrote:
>> Apologies if this is a newbie question, this is my first adventure 
>> with boost.jam...
>
> It's actually a Perforce/Jam question. SubInclude is a rule present in 
> the Perforce/Jam build system. For Boost.Build that rule is not 
> present. The reason it's not present for you is that you are invoking 
> "bjam", which *only* includes the Boost.Build functionality. If you 
> want the Perforce functionality you need to invoke it as "jam". In 
> Darwin/MacOSX that will likely invoke the Apple supplied jam instead 
> of Boost.Jam which is likely what you really want. But if you instead 
> want to invoke Boost.Jam with the Perforce behavior link or copy 
> "bjam" to make it available as "jam", and execute that.
>
>
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