thanks again... some additional stuff embedded At Wednesday 2003-08-13 18:34, you wrote:
"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I finally had some time to try this out ... the .zip flavor: > and came away confused > ========= > Installation...step 2. > >>Place the Boost.Jam binary, called "bjam" or "bjam.exe", somewhere > in your PATH. Verify that correct bjam is being executed by running > "bjam --version". You should get > > Boost.Build V2 (Milestone N) > > not what I get. bjam starts running and complains about syntax > errors...
Yeah, I just posted about this on the jamboost list. You probably ought to be posting there.
sure thing... how do I sign up?
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I think version 1.6 of tools/build/tools/boostbook.jam fixes this problem, though it's tagged as being part of Milestone 6 so I can't be sure. It works for me now.
I just got the milestone6 zip...hmmm
> I'm clueless
> ============
> build boost:
> C:\Projects\boost>bjam --version --v2 "-sTOOLS=vc7.1"
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\kernel\modules.jam:203: in normalize-raw-paths
> rule NORMALIZE_PATH unknown in module modules.
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\kernel\modules.jam:252: in import
> C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\kernel\bootstrap.jam:50: in boost-build
> C:\Projects\boost\boost-build.jam:12: in module scope
>
> Was I supposed to copy more of the files someplace??
Err. No. You're mixing v2 and v1 invocation styles. You don't use -sTOOLS with v2.
thanks tried just bjam --v2 and get the same errors
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