Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #354: Can't build on cygwin

dbikel — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:29:51 GMT

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Ditto with boost v.133!  I cannot believe this was posted
way back in February, but the problem has not since been
fixed!  Anyone?
To give more detail: I downloaded and built bjam from source
on cygwin, and ran the same command as above, except I
supplied a --prefix argument to install in a non-default
directory.

dbikel — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:58:44 GMT

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Sorry ... my previous followup was obnoxious.  I realize
many dedicated people are working very hard on fixing the
inevitable ton of reported bugs, of which this is only one.
 So, let me put it another way: I would greatly appreciate
it if someone could fix this bug that prevents building
Boost on cygwin.
Thanks in advance,
Dan.

René Rivera — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:29:34 GMT

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We need more information about this problem. Could someone
please post a fuller log of what the errors are and the full
invocation of bjam. Also what shell is bjam being run from?

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Markus Schöpflin — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:17:32 GMT

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Ok, I reproduced this with boost 1.33.0 and some recent
cygwin installation on W2K.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open bash
2. Change to boost root.
3. cd tools/build/jam_src/
4. ./build.sh
5. cd ../../../
6. ./tools/build/jam_src/bin.cygwinx86/bjam.exe
This gives:
unknown target type for
<@boost!libs!test!build>libboost_prg_exec_monitor.dll
Inserting
echo "NT:" $(NT) ;
echo "UNIX:" $(UNIX) ;
echo "OS:" $(OS) ;
into the boost/libs/test/build Jamfile gives the following
result:
NT:
UNIX: true
OS: CYGWIN
Looking at the Jamfile for 1.33.1 Beta and CVS HEAD this has
been fixed by Rene, therefore I'm closing this bug.
Markus