[boost] filesystem/path behavior

From: Sebastien Mirolo (smirolo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-17 17:51:50

Hi,

I was trying to use the boost::filesystem::path class (from  
boost_1_33_1) and surprisingly, the following little piece of code  
just asserts:

/* g++ -v -I${HOME}/installed/local/include -L${HOME}/installed/local/ 
lib \
      -o boost boost.cc -lboost_filesystem
*/

#include <boost/filesystem/path.hpp>

int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) {
   boost::filesystem::path p("/usr/include/c++/4.0.0/cstring");
   return 0;
}

Bahia:bugs$ ./boost
terminate called after throwing an instance of  
'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
   what():  boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c++" in path: "/ 
usr/include/c++/4.0.0/cstring"
Abort trap
Bahia:bugs$

Is there any reason why I couldn't construct a path like this? I was  
just trying to access a file in the default include directory of the  
gcc install on Mac OSX 10.4.

Thank you,
Sebastien.