[Boost-users] bjam and environment variable DOT

[Andrew Kaluzniacki]

In building boost I ran into an issue with bjam in having DOT as an
environment variable and I did not find any other posts documenting the
problem so I am adding this to save others the effort. DOT is in my
environment for doxygen to find. Once I cleared DOT for the build
everything seemed to be fine. Below is the output when DOT="C:\Program
Files\ATT\Graphviz\bin"


C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0>bjam -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 install
C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1358: in SubDir
*** argument error
* rule split-path ( path )
* called with: ( C:\Program Files\ATT\Graphviz\bin )
* extra argument Files\ATT\Graphviz\bin
C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1582:see definition
of rule 'split-path' being called
C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1222: in project-root
Jamfile:154: in load-jamfiles
C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build
C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope

C:\boost1\boost_1_32_0>





Andrew Kaluzniacki
Senior Software Engineer
Intelligent Systems
BAE Systems. Burlington, MA
(781) 273-3388 x269

_______________________________________________
Boost-users mailing list
Boost...@lists.boost.org
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users

[David Abrahams]

Andrew Kaluzniacki <andrew.ka...@baesystems.com> writes:

> In building boost I ran into an issue with bjam in having DOT as an
> environment variable and I did not find any other posts documenting the
> problem so I am adding this to save others the effort. DOT is in my
> environment for doxygen to find. Once I cleared DOT for the build
> everything seemed to be fine. Below is the output when DOT="C:\Program
> Files\ATT\Graphviz\bin"

Yeah, I hope when we switch to BBv2 it will be much more immune to
interference from environment variables. Sorry about that.

--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com