maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 226008] devel/boost-jam: Doesn't find toolset(s)

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Bug 226008: devel/boost-jam: Doesn't find toolset(s)
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226008



--- Description ---
Trying to compile libtorrent-daemon (recursive git checkout) ends up failing
because no toolset is found. I've tried to setup the environment as
textproc/kenlm but it still fails with the same error. On Debian you just need
to run 'bjam' and it works so I guess it's some quirk regarding FreeBSD.

setenv BOOST_BUILD_PATH /usr/local/share/boost_build
diizzy at hanekawa:~/libtorrent-bjam/libtorrent-daemon % bjam
CXXFLAGS =
LDFLAGS =
OS = FREEBSD
warning: No toolsets are configured.
warning: Configuring default toolset "gcc".
warning: If the default is wrong, you may not be able to build C++ programs.
warning: Use the "--toolset=xxxxx" option to override our guess.
warning: For more configuration options, please consult
warning:
http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
warn: Unable to construct ./libtorrent-daemon
error: no generators were found for type 'EXE'
error: and the requested properties
error: make sure you've configured the needed tools
See http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
To debug this problem, try the --debug-generators option.

Not setting a BOOST_BUILD_PATH at all results in bjam not finding jam-files at
all. Setting clang as toolset doesn't work as boost doesn't know about clang or
so it says.

This is on FreeBSD 11.1 and a current version of the ports tree.