No b2 executable in libboost-tools-dev

[Christopher Beck]

The boost build tool, b2 is important for any project that is using the boost build system for its own purposes.

It is distributed in Ubuntu as part of the `libboost-tools-dev` package. However, it is renamed `bjam` there.

The `bjam` name is archaic. Something like five years ago, they decided to rename it to `b2` since it doesn't interoperate with the old perforce version `bjam` which isn't developed anymore.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5759434/boost-installation

http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_48_0.html

I understand that the ubuntu package still calls it `bjam` to avoid breakage (presumably), but can't it at least provide a symlink called `b2`? It seriously confused me for a long time why I couldn't get travis-ci to use `b2` after installing `libboost-all-dev`.

[Christopher Beck (cbeck88)]

@Jeremy Bicha: Thank you for looking into this and researching it, your explanation of the problem and the link you found were much better than my original report.

[Christopher Beck (cbeck88)]

It looks like debian did not actually fixed this, they closed it because that package is now defunct. Is there anything I'm supposed to do to follow up on this? Should I file it again against a different version of debian boost package?

[dino99 (9d9)]

@Christopher

as per the Debian comments (1.60 has been dropped, and its associated bugs too; considering 1.60 as a transitional version), you might check their now only valid 1.61 release.

If 1.61 is still having the problem you have reported here, then report against it with a new debbugs report and a launchpad one.