Re: [boost] path length too long for 64 bits builds

Subject: Re: [boost] path length too long for 64 bits builds
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-27 05:31:38

AMDG

On 10/26/2017 11:24 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba via Boost wrote:
> 
> On 64 bits windows machines we are seen
> 
> Austin Beer said in
> https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/188#issuecomment-339829423
> 
> "FYI, the 64-bit Windows builds are failing due the unit tests exceeding
> the 260 character filepath limit on Windows. Every filepath includes
> |\msvc-14.1\debug\address-model-64\threadapi-win32\threading-multi|. Do
> you know if there is an easy way to shorten this? On the 32-bit builds
> the filepaths don't have |\address-model-64| which is just enough to
> keep them under the 260 character limit so they don't fail."
> 
> 
> Is there a workaround to this issue without changing the specific part
> of the test files folder structure?
> 

--abbreviate-paths

http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/reference/buildprocess.html#bbv2.reference.buildprocess.targetpath

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe