Re: [jamboost] Re: tools/build/build_system.htm examples wrong?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-30 19:24:32

At 12:47 AM 6/30/2003, Rene Rivera wrote:
>[2003-06-30] David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> The "Initiating a Build" section of .../tools/build/build_system.htm 
has
>a
>>> table with several command line examples. For example:
>>>
>>> bjam -sBUILD="<cxxflags>/G6"
>>>
>>> At least on my Win XP system, that doesn't work. It has to be:
>>>
>>> bjam "-sBUILD=<cxxflags>/G6"
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely sure, but wouldn't be surprised if every case is 
wrong
>>> where the double-quote is in the middle of an argument.
>>
>>Very suprising. I never had a problem with that syntax on XP myself.
>>
>>> If someone with a better understanding of bjam (and how various 
operating
>
>>> systems parse arguments) will confirm that, I'll update the HTML.
>>
>>All I have for you is anti-confirmation.
>
>And I have a similar anti-confirmation... both forms work for me in 
Win-2K.

Thanks - the anti-confirmations caused me to run more tests. In cutting 
down to a more minimal example, I glossed over the fact that the invocation 
occurred in a batch file, and that the actual argument was passed as a 
batch file parameter. That turned out to be critial. See my reply to Dave.

--Beman