Re: [boost] [release] 1.66.0 closing for beta tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] 1.66.0 closing for beta tomorrow
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-12 04:06:51

James E. King, III wrote:

> Perhaps --abbreviate-paths should be the default behavior for bjam on 
> Windows now, given the default options have broken more than one 
> environment (this is not the first email with this subject in the last 
> month).

Or we could make it check whether the path exceeds PATH_MAX and 
automatically abbreviate or hash it. Here for instance:

https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/develop/src/build/property-set.jam#L515

we could make hash-maybe hash if the length of $(path) exceeds PATH_MAX.