Re: Patch for tools/gcc.jam in BBv2

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-27 13:33:09

Brian Ravnsgaard Riis <brian_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>Well, this is very telling. I'm sure we can fix that.
>>>
>>>Hmm, this is clearly my fault, in part. We should never be trying to
>>>execute multiline commands directly. Oh, there's a long string of
>>>culpability going back to some code inherited from FTJam. Lovely :(
>>>
>>>Will fix.
>> 
>> 
>> Wow, that was a big project. Please check this out and make sure it
>> works for you.
>
> build.bat msvc
>
> ...
>
> execnt.c(420) : error C2017: illegal escape sequence
>
> MinGW works, though

No more spawn problems?

> , and it looks legal to me. (?) Just another VC++6 
> hiccup?

Yes. I just checked in a workaround.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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