Re: [boost] bootstrap.bat broken for MinGW since 1.55

Subject: Re: [boost] bootstrap.bat broken for MinGW since 1.55
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-04 02:49:18

On 03.12.2013 18:37, niXman wrote:

>> I have tried with the source archive downloaded from Sourceforge, and with
>> the master branch from Github, both times I get the same error. It works
>> fine with Boost 1.54.
>>
>> Does anyone know what change could have caused this?
>
> Before the release of boost-1.55, I warned the developers about that. But they preferred to ignore me instead of fix it.

I'm am sorry that you feel like you've being ignored, but nobody in the world likes to hack .bat files. Also, this
is partially a known problem, see:

        https://github.com/boostorg/boost/blob/master/bootstrap.bat#L34

Patches are appreciated!

Thanks,
Volodya