Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] mingw-cross-env-2.9: DEbian Squeeze AMD65: Failed to build package boost!

[Tony Theodore]

2009/11/13 Volker Grabsch <address@hidden>:
> Joost Kraaijeveld <address@hidden> schrieb:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:56 +0100, Stefan Peter wrote:
>> > I think I have found the reason for this error: If you have installed a
>> > native bjam on your system, the bjam that is built for building boost
>> > picks up the /etc/site-config.jam. It seems that in this case the
>> > user-config.jam fails to override the gcc to use.
>> >
>> > Renaming /etc/site-config.jam for the boost build does, at least on my
>> > system, result in a successful build.
>>
>> Yes, I confirm that this is the problem/solution. Thanks for looking
>> into the problem.
>
> This is a reasonable workaround, but is there also a "real" solution?
>
> Are we able to force the cross-built Boost to use it's own Bjam
> without disabling the native Bjam?
>
> Is there any way to improve the src/boost.mk in this regard?

I was able to replicate the problem by creating an
/etc/site-config.jam with a single line - using gcc ;

The bjam option --ignore-site-config succeeds.

diff -r 446e8d4cdcff src/boost.mk
--- a/src/boost.mk      Thu Nov 12 14:33:03 2009 +0100
+++ b/src/boost.mk      Sat Nov 14 05:28:45 2009 +1100
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
     cd '$(1)/tools/jam/src' && ./build.sh
     cd '$(1)' && tools/jam/src/bin.*/bjam \
         -j '$(JOBS)' \
+        --ignore-site-config \
         --user-config=user-config.jam \
         target-os=windows \
         threading=multi \


Tony