Re: [Boost-users] Re: Are BOOST_BUILD_PATH && BOOST_ROOT necessary?

4 Sep 2004

      On Friday 03 September 2004 12:06, David Abrahams wrote:
...
"Steven T. Hatton"  writes:
...
From reading the documentation on boost.org, I have gotten the impression
I don't need to set $BOOST_BUILD_PATH and $BOOST_ROOT.
Correct.
...
http://www.boost.org/tools/build/jam_src/#jambase_replacement
describes the file that bjam expects to see when it starts up.  You
might also drop a Jamrules file in the root directory of your own
Boost.Build project (if you use bjam for your own project) that
contains:
project boost : path/to/boost_1_31_0 ;
I set the BOOST_ROOT to the value that I thought it should have and was able 
to run bjam on a very simple project.  I then put the value of BOOST_ROOT in 
a Jamrules file in the same directory and unset the BOOST_ROOT variable.  I 
attempted to run bjam again and was informed that it was unable to find 
"boost-build.jam"

This is the entire content of the directory:

//main.cc
#include <iostream>

int main() {
  std::cout << "Hello Boost Jam!\n";
}

# Jamfile
project-root ;
exe hello : main.cc ;

#Jamrules
project boost : /<path to>boost/1_31_0 ;

Have I done something wrong?
-- 
Regards,
Steven