Re: [Boost-users] bjam JAMSHELL

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] bjam JAMSHELL
From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-25 03:03:03

Hi Gerhard !

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 20:20:10 Gerhard Lipp wrote:

> i would like to specify a different shell for bjam on windows xp (namely
> sh.exe).
> i tried to place
>
> JAMSHELL = C:\\Programme\\A-Toolchain\\bin\\sh.exe -c % ;
>
> in my Jamroot file, though without success, the windows cmd "shell" gets
> called.

Sorry, no ideas on that. Maybe you should try it on the Boost.Build Mailing 
list next time. I'm cc'ing that list for this reason.

> background: i have to invoke a shell script (wx-config) to get my
> cxxflags like that
>
> local wx_cxxflags = [ SHELL "wx-config --cxxflags | tr -d '\\n'" ] ;

This is WxWidgets, right ?

Maybe you can try out Renes Boost.Build extensions. Take a look at 

 https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/tools/build_extensions/ext/wxwidgets.jam

and see if this helps.

Yours,

Jürgen
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