Re: [boost] Windows Develop Tests Failing

Subject: Re: [boost] Windows Develop Tests Failing
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-13 21:47:35

AMDG

On 03/13/2015 06:26 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2015 at 0:29, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> 
>>
>> (b) AFAIK, there is Windows API that can work 
>> with long paths (32767 chars or something?). Can bjam be updated to use these 
>> API to work around the problem?
> 
> Proposed Boost.AFIO has always used the NT kernel API directly, and 
> <snip>
> 

What AFIO does is completely irrelevant, since
b2 is written in C and cannot use Boost anyway.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe