Re: strange behaviour at setup on windows2000

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-16 22:09:00

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.user as well.

What happens when you run bjam -d+2 instead of just bjam?
Can you see the commands which delete tools\ ?

Anthony Lichnewsky <yg-boost-users_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> You've gotta be kidding me. Are you positive? I've never seen
>> anything like this.
>
> I am 100% positive !!!
> I ran the whole installation three times, and every time it was the same.
> I have been using boost under linux for a while, I expected it to be 
> straigthforward to use on windows too... it is, except for this.
> I wouldn't have mailed if I was not sure.
>
>> You can say that again!
> OK ;)
> "setting those files to read-only was enough"
>
> I just thought it was worth reporting it, although I didn't find the 
> reason it occured ...
>
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > Anthony Lichnewsky <yg-boost-users_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >
> >
> >>I had the following trouble setting up boost 1.29.0 on windows 2000
> >>(using vc7, but that's not the point)
> >>
> >>the first thing bjam did (the version downloaded from sourceforge) was
> >>to erase all the files and folders in tools\
> >
> >
> > You've gotta be kidding me. Are you positive? I've never seen
> > anything like this.
> >
> >
> >>so that no build could be performed... setting those files to
> >>read-only was enough but that's an unexpected behaviour.
> >
> >
> > You can say that again!
> >
>
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