Hi, In the meantime I modified both glob.c and regexp.c to correctly handle [a-z] constructs and inserted some additional #include's here and there. bjam builds itself correctly. I also set up a the tool definition - os390xlc.jam in my case - and now I can use my existing Jamfiles to build my own projects. This is already a great step forward! But when I try to build boost libraries bjam only finds one target and does nothing. What do I do wrong? See output below. regards, Norbert
./bjam
WARNING: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration failed. See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets Building the Boost C++ Libraries. After the build, the headers will be located at /home/u250672/cpp/boost The libraries will be located at /home/u250672/cpp/boost/stage/lib Use 'bjam install --prefix=<path>' if you wish to install headers and libraries to a different location and remove the source tree. ...found 1 target...
I wrote:
Thanks for the hint! Apparently, the match in numbers.jam is performed by the code in glob.c that assumes that all
character values are <128. Surprisingly it did not fail in a more drastic way since array bounds are being exceeded. I
adapted glob.c for EBCDIC and the numbers.check rule now works correctly.
Next I will have a closer look at regexp.c . It is being heavily used with expressions like [a-z] that have a very
strange meaning whithout taking into account that a-z on EBCDIC is not encoded as a consecutive range of character
values.
I keep you tuned on the progress.
regards,
Norbert