Re: [boost] Re: Building Boost on Linux

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-13 17:21:00

At 03:58 PM 3/13/2002, Braden McDaniel wrote:

 >Quoting Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:
 >
 >> At 11:15 PM 3/12/2002, Douglas Gregor wrote:
 >>
 >>  >I presume that the Windows file system is indeed a FAT file system
 >> (because
 >>  >NTFS is very poorly supported under Linux) ...
 >>
 >> I mount Win2k/NTFS directories under Redhat Linux 7.2 and run Jam and
 >other
 >>
 >> simple operations without difficulty.  So there has to be a bit more to 
it
 >
 >> than that.
 >
 >>From what I gather, that's more or less the state of things. You must be 

 >running a custom kernel.

No, straight install from the distribution disk.  Here is the portion of 
the script that does the mount:

   if ! mount -t smbfs //p-500/c /p-500; then
     echo 'mount //p-500/c failed'
     exit 1
   fi

 ><http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/distro/RedHat/ompntfs.htm>

Glad I didn't see that first!

--Beman