Re: [boost] Re: Building Boost on Linux

From: Braden McDaniel (braden_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-13 17:07:22

Quoting Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:

> 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

Aha... You're using Samba rather than mounting them as NTFS partitions.

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