On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:42 AM, s seelenluft wrote:

Thanks for answering (on a weekend)!

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Vladimir Prus

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wrote: You have snipped the backtrace, which is the only thing that can help diagnose this. Sorry, here it is: (builtin):see definition of rule 'SHELL' being called /usr/share/boost-build/build/toolset.jam:36: in toolset.using /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:825: in using /usr/share/boost-build/user-config.jam:20: in modules.load /usr/share/boost-build/build-system.jam:104: in load-config /usr/share/boost-build/build-system.jam:154: in load /usr/share/boost-build/kernel/modules.jam:261: in import /usr/share/boost-build/kernel/bootstrap.jam:132: in boost-build /usr/share/boost-build/boost-build.jam:1: in module scope

You did not say what version of Boost.Build you are using. I recommend that you grab a nightly build from http://boost.org/boost-build2 and give it a try. I am not sure it was labelled as such but I installed it at the same time when boost 1.39 was the current boost library. I have not downloaded a nightly build and things progress much further (I did not yet upgrade the developer tools, ie, I still run XCode 3.1.3 that I had installed on Leopard): bjam sh: g++: command not found ...found 9 targets... ...updating 2 targets... darwin.compile.c++ bin/darwin/debug/HelloWorld.o /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found

I suggest that you update your developer tools, then. Xcode 3.1.3 is not supported (by Apple) on Snow Leopard. -- Marshall

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, s seelenluft wrote:

I suggest that you update your developer tools, then. Xcode 3.1.3 is not

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supported (by Apple) on Snow Leopard.

Interestingly, an existing C++ project in Xcode 3.1.3 on Snow Leopard (which also uses a Jamroot file) does compile and run fine. Yes, I intended to upgrade but I am surprised that compiling with Xcode 3.1.3 does work but using the command line does not.

After updating Xcode to 3.2 (incl. all the developer tools), things work again. However, I also needed to upgrade boost-build to the latest version (not too surprising, I just had hoped to somewhere find a note via Google which version of boost-build is required for Snow Leopard, I am now using the last nightly build).