Re: [boost] Re: Building Boost on Linux

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-12 23:15:04

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:07 pm, you wrote:
> On 2002-03-13 at 01:50 AM, conic_at_[hidden] (simonwlb) wrote:
> >The other thing I did to make Jam build was to comment out a line in
> >the Jam Makefile:
> >
> >#   chmod a+w jambase.c
> >
> >Before I commented out the line above, the Jam Make process caused
> >all sorts of errors to come up, like not being able to find "yyacc".
> >
> >Maybe my build of Jam is no good either?
>
> No, it's probably fine. But one of the things that building Jam does is try
> and regenerate that file. Which leads me to think that somehow the Win FS
> mount is not letting you do things like create directories, and possibly
> changing the permissions on files -- and changing permissions is something
> Jam does for most of the files it builds.

I presume that the Windows file system is indeed a FAT file system (because 
NTFS is very poorly supported under Linux), which has no concept of 
Unix-style permissions. That probably makes Jam very, very unhappy.

I've found that FAT partitions under Linux are good only for communication 
with Windows on the same computer, and are not in any way useful to 
development. Between the lack of symlinks and the lack of permissions, Unix 
tools just don't play nice.

        Doug