On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:07:19 -0500, Jody Hagins wrote
and so on. As you can see, it ignores the --builddir command line option. This is the source of my first confusion since the documentation indicates that bjam will "find" the Jamrules for the project (which it obviously does, or it would not know how to build everything, I imagine).
I get similar behavior in other subdirectories. Since running in a subdir is probably common, I imagine I am missing something,...
I don't know if this will help, but I think the source of you problem is --builddir. When I run tests for date_time I simply change to libs/date_time/test and type bjam --verbose-test I don't build the library first. Since the tests depend on the library bjam dutifully builds them somewhere into BOOST_ROOT/bin/.... verbose-test makes the output of the test be displayed during execution.
In addition, I will need to do something "special" in the test, and I can ont find a good example in other test Jamfiles. For my test, I need to create a shared library locally for testing, but I do not want it installed anywhere. I simply need it for testing the dll code ability to open/close/find symbols.
You'll need a bjam guru for that one.... HTH, Jeff