[Boost-users] Bjam problem - again

Subject: [Boost-users] Bjam problem - again
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-23 10:12:03

I've moved to a new machine, and I can run bjam jobs from trunk, but when I
try to run sandbox jobs, I am baffled by this message.

Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find build system.
---------------------------------------------------------
I:\boost-sandbox\boost-build.jam attempted to load the build system by
invoking

   'boost-build ;'

but we were unable to find "bootstrap.jam" in the specified directory

Unhelpfully, it doesn't seem to reveal what the 'specified directory'
actually is.

The files were copied over from a working system, so I can't see what has
changed.
The jamfile(s) are unchanged.
I've got the following environment variables set:

I:\boost-sandbox>set boost
boost_build_path=i:\boost_1_44_0\tools\build\v2
boost_patches=i:\boost-patches
boost_root=i:\boost_1_44_0
boost_sandbox=i:\boost-sandbox
boost_trunk=i:\boost-trunk

I:\boost-sandbox>bjam --debug_configuration just produces this message.

I:\boost-sandbox>bjam -d5 --debug_configuration > debug.log

produces the attached log, and the trunk log for comparison.

Help!

Thanks

Paul

PS Boost build is undoubtedly clever, but, sadly, not nearly clever enough
for the abuse of very many users, judging by the Google entries for the
above error message :-(

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