Hi Gerhard ! On Wednesday 24 September 2008 20:20:10 Gerhard Lipp wrote:

i would like to specify a different shell for bjam on windows xp (namely sh.exe). i tried to place

JAMSHELL = C:\\Programme\\A-Toolchain\\bin\\sh.exe -c % ;

in my Jamroot file, though without success, the windows cmd "shell" gets called.

Sorry, no ideas on that. Maybe you should try it on the Boost.Build Mailing list next time. I'm cc'ing that list for this reason.

background: i have to invoke a shell script (wx-config) to get my cxxflags like that

local wx_cxxflags = [ SHELL "wx-config --cxxflags | tr -d '\\n'" ] ;

This is WxWidgets, right ? Maybe you can try out Renes Boost.Build extensions. Take a look at https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/tools/build_extensions/ext/wxwidgets... and see if this helps. Yours, Jürgen -- * Dipl.-Math. Jürgen Hunold ! Ingenieurgesellschaft für * voice: ++49 511 262926 57 ! Verkehrs- und Eisenbahnwesen mbH * fax : ++49 511 262926 99 ! Lister Straße 15 * juergen.hunold@ivembh.de ! www.ivembh.de * * Geschäftsführer: ! Sitz des Unternehmens: Hannover * Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Siefer ! Amtsgericht Hannover, HRB 56965 * PD Dr.-Ing. Alfons Radtke !