Re: [Boost-users] Jamfile.v2 for iostreams in Boost 1_48

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Jamfile.v2 for iostreams in Boost 1_48
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-17 16:15:19

AMDG

On 01/17/2012 12:42 PM, David Smith wrote:
> Greetings,
> The Jamfile.v2 in the iostreams library of Boost 1_48 has the line (around 29):
> $(v) = [ modules.peek : $(v) ] ;
> Used to propogate path-constant settings to the local jam environment. I think it should be:
> $($(v)) = [ modules.peek : $(v) ] ;
> 

That doesn't make sense to me.
If $(var) should expand to "value",
the syntax is var = value ;
not $(var) = value ;

> At least when I run with this the build of iostreams works correctly to compile bzip2 and zlib objects and fails otherwise.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe