As far as I'm aware I'm using pretty much a default ubuntu installation with gcc 4.1.2. After compiling bjam from sources, using thesehttp://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/jam/building.htmlinstructions, and running the tests, I get the following failures: root@---------:/usr/local/src/boost/tools/jam/test# sh test.sh

--- Testing SHELL builtin... --- Testing W32_GETREGNAMES builtin... --- Testing var expansion... --- Testing var on target semantics... --- Testing var expansion... var_expand.jam:14: error: [FAILED] (==) '' var_expand.jam:17: error: [FAILED] (==) '' --- Complete: PASSED(21) *FAILED(2)*

The output from the compilation is below (it seems to work, even with the lists of warnings): root@hallah:/usr/local/src/boost/tools/jam# cd src | sh ./build_dist.sh

../../../Jamfile.v2:335: in load-aux rule path.glob-tree unknown in module Jamfile. /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:318: in load-jamfile /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:68: in load /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:120: in load-parent /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:447: in initialize /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:301: in load-jamfile /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:68: in load /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:120: in load-parent /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:447: in initialize /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:301: in load-jamfile /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:68: in load /usr/share/boost-build/build/project.jam:170: in project.find /usr/share/boost-build/build-system.jam:148: in load /usr/share/boost-build/kernel/modules.jam:261: in import /usr/share/boost-build/kernel/bootstrap.jam:132: in boost-build /usr/local/src/boost/boost-build.jam:9: in module scope cp: cannot stat `html/*': No such file or directory ### ### Using 'gcc' toolset. ### rm -rf bootstrap mkdir bootstrap gcc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c debug.c execunix.c expand.c fileunix.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c parse.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c pwd.c class.c native.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/property-set.cmodules/sequence.c modules/order.c execnt.c filent.c compile.c: In function 'compile_set': compile.c:1151: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type compile.c: In function 'compile_settings': compile.c:1244: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type ./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root= clean ...found 1 target... ...updating 1 target... ...updated 1 target... ./bootstrap/jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=gcc --toolset-root= ...found 46 targets... ...updating 2 targets... [MKDIR] bin.linuxx86 [COMPILE] bin.linuxx86/bjam compile.c: In function 'compile_set': compile.c:1151: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type compile.c: In function 'compile_settings': compile.c:1244: warning: passing argument 2 of 'assign_var_mode' from incompatible pointer type hash.c: In function 'hash_search': hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness hash.c:126: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness ...updated 2 targets...

Note that the first 10 or so lines of the output above keep coming up when I'm trying to build other boost libraries. What am I doing wrong? --- Darren Garvey