Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #4743: bjam endless command loop (windows)

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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:10:54 GMT

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Please provide a test case/patch, if possible. Without that, it'll be hard for us to verify this...

Steven Watanabe — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:56:54 GMT

The configuration for Boost.Python invokes the Python interpreter. If running "python" doesn't do this, it's bound to cause trouble.

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Vladimir Prus — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:31:16 GMT

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Right -- it does not seem we can do anything if 'python' does not work.

anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:41:42 GMT

Too bad this was closed without at least detecting the absense of python during the compilation phase.

Compiling on an old laptop I expected it to take awhile..... by the 2nd day and bjam target #1200 I realized it was looping.

Apparently a few subtle "python not found" errors at the BEGINNING of the output was all I had to go on.

My god simply check for python and if it's not there abort or display some kind of error message! My machine just sat at 100% CPU for 2 days wasting all kinds of energy for no reason at all.

Vladimir Prus — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:50:19 GMT

The problem in the original report was not absense of Python. It was script called python.bat that runs bjam. This is hardly a situation we can easily detect.

If you situation is different, could you file a separate issue?