Re: [boost] status/Jamfile

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-26 06:59:41

From: "John Maddock" <jm_at_[hidden]>

>
> Cygwin was working just fine for me until the last few days, the recent
> fixes have helped on linux, but cygwin still complains that it can't find
> features.jam and then gives a long list of errors.

Mine fails in completely different ways, FWIW (see below).
What's your environment look like?
Why don't you post the -d+5 output up to the point where it tries to
"include features.jam"

> BTW cygwin is really
> just a version of unix in effect, it should work :-)

should and does are sometimes different ;-)

$ c:/boost/tools/build/jam_src/bin.cygwinx86/bjam -sTOOLS=gcc regex
...found 534 targets...
...updating 86 targets...
MkDir1 ../libs/regex/build/bin
: not found
mkdir: cannot create directory `\r': No such file or directory

    mkdir  ../libs/regex/build/bin

...failed MkDir1 ../libs/regex/build/bin...
...skipped <directory-grist>../libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a for
lack of
 <directory-grist>../libs/regex/build/bin...

...etc...
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