I've moved to a new machine, and I can run bjam jobs from trunk, but when I try to run sandbox jobs, I am baffled by this message.
Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find build system. --------------------------------------------------------- I:\boost-sandbox\boost-build.jam attempted to load the build system by invoking
'boost-build ;'
but we were unable to find "bootstrap.jam" in the specified directory
Unhelpfully, it doesn't seem to reveal what the 'specified directory' actually is.
Paul, is the root directory of the sandbox up to date? A while back I added some better error handling to the boost-build.jam specifically to address inscrutable error messages like this. Also added a readme.txt file which says: This directory contains the file "boost-build.jam" which search for a Boost install as follows: * In a directory specified by the --boost=path command line option. * In a directory specified by the BOOST environment variable. * In the directories ../boost and ../Trunk. In addition the variables BOOST and BOOST_ROOT are set to point to the root of the Boost install, so to refer to other Boost libraries and the main Boost headers, your Jamfile should contain something like: import modules ; local boost-path = [ modules.peek : BOOST ] ; And then you can refer to a Boost library "foo" as: $(boost)/libs/foo/build//boost_foo Note that if your project does not specify a Jamroot file, then a default one is provided for you, and that this file will automatically add $(BOOST)/ to your include path. HTH, John.