Re: [boost] path length too long for 64 bits builds

Subject: Re: [boost] path length too long for 64 bits builds
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-27 05:58:30

Le 27/10/2017 à 07:31, Steven Watanabe via Boost a écrit :
> AMDG
>
> On 10/26/2017 11:24 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba via Boost wrote:
>> On 64 bits windows machines we are seen
>>
>> Austin Beer said in
>> https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/188#issuecomment-339829423
>>
>> "FYI, the 64-bit Windows builds are failing due the unit tests exceeding
>> the 260 character filepath limit on Windows. Every filepath includes
>> |\msvc-14.1\debug\address-model-64\threadapi-win32\threading-multi|. Do
>> you know if there is an easy way to shorten this? On the 32-bit builds
>> the filepaths don't have |\address-model-64| which is just enough to
>> keep them under the 260 character limit so they don't fail."
>>
>>
>> Is there a workaround to this issue without changing the specific part
>> of the test files folder structure?
>>
> --abbreviate-paths
>
> http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/reference/buildprocess.html#bbv2.reference.buildprocess.targetpath
>
>
Thanks,
Vicente