Amy Sockanathan wrote:

I am trying to build bjam to install Boost and am getting the following error......

[COMPILE] bin.linuxx86.debug/yyacc

"gcc" -o bin.linuxx86.debug/yyacc -DOPT_HEADER_CACHE_EXT -DOPT_GRAPH_DEBUG_EXT -DOPT_SEMAPHORE -DOPT_AT_FILES -DOPT_FIX_TARGET_VARIABLES_EXT -DOPT_IMPROVED_PATIENCE_EXT -DYYSTACKSIZE=5000 -pedantic -g -O0 -fno-inline -Wno-long-long yyacc.c

...failed [COMPILE] bin.linuxx86.debug/yyacc... [COMPILE] bin.linuxx86.debug/mkjambase

"gcc" -o bin.linuxx86.debug/mkjambase -DOPT_HEADER_CACHE_EXT -DOPT_GRAPH_DEBUG_EXT -DOPT_SEMAPHORE -DOPT_AT_FILES -DOPT_FIX_TARGET_VARIABLES_EXT -DOPT_IMPROVED_PATIENCE_EXT -DYYSTACKSIZE=5000 -pedantic -g -O0 -fno-inline -Wno-long-long mkjambase.c

...failed [COMPILE] bin.linuxx86.debug/mkjambase... ...skipped jambase.c for lack of mkjambase... ...skipped bjam for lack of jambase.c... ...skipped jam for lack of bjam... ...failed updating 2 targets... ...skipped 3 targets.

Any suggestion what I need to get this to complie. I am using scratchbox on an Ubuntu machine.

Hard to tell without any usable error messages (the above aren't error messages just failures). Perhaps you can tell us more details as to how/where you are trying to build it. Other than the obvious of trying to build the debug version of bjam on some Linux X86 variant. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo