Lewis Hyatt wrote:
Hi All,
Hi Lewis,
I apologize if this has been reported before, but I couldn't find it after a long search. I encountered problems building bjam on a standard Linux distribution (uname -a: Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL #1 Wed May 25 14:34:59 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) with gcc. (same problem with gcc 3.2.2 or 4.0.1). The executable seg faulted every time. I tracked it to the function var_defines() in variable.c which had a logic error at lines 124-130. I didn't investigate far enough to determine why the function was receiving strings consisting of a single quote,
I suspect some environment variable has a single quote as a value.
and I do not know if this is irregular or not, but in any case the attached patch (output from diff -c) corrects the issue.
Applied, thanks! - Volodya P.S. Note that it's better to send jam patches to the jamboost mailing list.