Re: [boost] bootstrap.bat broken for MinGW since 1.55

Subject: Re: [boost] bootstrap.bat broken for MinGW since 1.55
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-06 19:43:21

On 12/4/2013 11:45 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:
> On 12/03/2013 11:49 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> On 03.12.2013 18:37, niXman wrote:
>>
>>>> I have tried with the source archive downloaded from Sourceforge, and
>>>> with
>>>> the master branch from Github, both times I get the same error. It works
>>>> fine with Boost 1.54.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what change could have caused this?
>>>
>>> Before the release of boost-1.55, I warned the developers about that.
>>> But they preferred to ignore me instead of fix it.
>>
>> I'm am sorry that you feel like you've being ignored, but nobody in the
>> world likes to hack .bat files. Also, this
>> is partially a known problem, see:
>>
>>     https://github.com/boostorg/boost/blob/master/bootstrap.bat#L34
>>
>> Patches are appreciated!
> 
> I have this partially implemented over here. I hope to finish it up
> later today.

I submitted a pull request that hopefully addresses this issue:
https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/5

With this patch, you should be able to do:
> bootstrap.bat --with-toolset=mingw

... and it should do the right thing. It would be great if someone could
try it out.

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost.org
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