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

Subject: Re: [boost] bootstrap.bat broken for MinGW since 1.55
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-04 14:45:45

On 12/03/2013 11:49 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 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!

I have this partially implemented over here. I hope to finish it up
later today.

Eric