Re: "error: Unable to find file or target named" when using BCP to change Boost namespace

From: Nicholas Williams (nicholas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-17 01:44:00

This helped me a lot, however. I was able to expand on your suggested
patch. Everything works perfectly if I patch Jamroot as follows before
running bcp:

--- boost/Jamroot   2025-01-12 12:14:52
+++ boost/Jamroot.new    2025-01-16 15:09:03
@@ -305,24 +305,24 @@
 # First, the complicated libraries: where the target name in Jamfile is
 # different from its directory name.
 explicit
-    [ alias prg_exec_monitor : libs/test/build//boost_prg_exec_monitor ]
-    [ alias test_exec_monitor : libs/test/build//boost_test_exec_monitor ]
-    [ alias unit_test_framework :
libs/test/build//boost_unit_test_framework ]
-    [ alias serialization : libs/serialization/build//boost_serialization ]
-    [ alias wserialization :
libs/serialization/build//boost_wserialization ]
+    [ alias prg_exec_monitor : libs/test/build//"boost"_prg_exec_monitor ]
+    [ alias test_exec_monitor : libs/test/build//"boost"_test_exec_monitor
]
+    [ alias unit_test_framework :
libs/test/build//"boost"_unit_test_framework ]
+    [ alias serialization :
libs/serialization/build//"boost"_serialization ]
+    [ alias wserialization :
libs/serialization/build//"boost"_wserialization ]
     ;
 for local l in $(all-libraries-to-build)
 {
     if ! $(l) in test graph serialization headers
     {
-        explicit [ alias $(l) : libs/$(l)/build//boost_$(l) ] ;
+        explicit [ alias $(l) : libs/$(l)/build//"boost"_$(l) ] ;
     }
 }
 for local l in $(all-libraries-modular-build)
 {
     if ! $(l) in test graph serialization headers
     {
-        explicit [ alias $(l) : /boost/$(l)//boost_$(l) ] ;
+        explicit [ alias $(l) : /boost/$(l)//"boost"_$(l) ] ;
     }
 }

@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@
     local lib-module
         = [ project.load $(lib-path) : synthesize ] ;
     modules.poke $(lib-module) : BOOST_LIB_PROJECT : /boost/$(lib) ;
-    modules.poke $(lib-module) : BOOST_LIB_TARGET : boost_$(lib) ;
+    modules.poke $(lib-module) : BOOST_LIB_TARGET : "boost"_$(lib) ;
     project.push-current [ project.target $(lib-module) ] ;
     module $(lib-module)
     {

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM Nicholas Williams <
nicholas_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> This got me further, but it ultimately still failed later in the config
> with a similar error:
>
> ...
>     - std_wstreambuf builds    : yes [2]
>     - std_wstreambuf           : yes [2]
>     - BOOST_COMP_GNUC >= 4.3.0 : no [2]
>     - BOOST_COMP_GNUC >= 4.3.0 : no [3]
> error: Unable to find file or target named
> error:     'libs/thread/build//boost_MYextralLabel_thread'
> error: referred to from project at
> error:     '.'
>
> Notable differences in this error message are that now the target it's
> unable to find contains my custom namespace, and now the project referring
> to it is '.' instead of a path to subdirectory.
>
> Also notable that this new error is the same error I previously received
> if I deleted the 'boost' output directory after running `bcp` but before
> running `bootstrap`. So it seems that your suggested past gets past one bug
> but reveals the next bug.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM Дмитрий Архипов via Boost-users <
> boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> чт, 16 янв. 2025 г. в 18:09, Nicholas Williams via Boost-users
>> <boost-users_at_[hidden]>:
>> > error: Unable to find file or target named
>> > error:     '/boost/align//boost_align'
>> > error: referred to from project at
>> > error:     '{dir}/_dst/libs/atomic/build'
>> > make: *** [build] Error 1
>>
>> That is a bug in bcp. If you're looking for a quick fix, find this
>> line in Jamroot:
>>
>>     modules.poke $(lib-module) : BOOST_LIB_TARGET : boost_$(lib) ;
>>
>> And replace it with
>>
>>     modules.poke $(lib-module) : BOOST_LIB_TARGET : "boost"_$(lib) ;
>>
>> Then run bcp again.
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