[Boost-users] bjam in 1.44 vs 1.39

Subject: [Boost-users] bjam in 1.44 vs 1.39
From: Jonathan Brannan (kickace_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-01 13:10:33

We recently switched from boost 1.39 to boost 1.44.  We use the bjam and
boost build packaged with the version of boost we use.

It seems that the bjam packaged with 1.44 exists with 0 even if there is a
failure:

...failed gcc.compile.c++ /home/foo/Foo.o... ...failed updating 1 target...
machine:/home/foo # echo $?
0

It stops early with the -q and prints out that it failed, it just exits 0.

bjam -v Boost.Jam Version 3.1.18. OS=LINUX. Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher
Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc. Copyright 2001 David Turner. Copyright
2001-2004 David Abrahams. Copyright 2002-2008 Rene Rivera. Copyright
2003-2008 Vladimir Prus.

With Version 3.1.17. OS=LINUX version that came with 1.39, I get an exit
status of 1, which is what I expect.