Re: GCC toolset broken?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-25 17:41:25

"Hugo Duncan" <hugo_duncan_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure why this is suddenly happening to me; I just did a
>> rebuild of bjam to try to fix it with no luck. Anyone have a clue?
> (snip)...
>
>> spawn: Invalid argument
>
> Commenting the following lines in gcc-tools v1 got rid of this last 
> one for me. 

It's fixed now.

> Not sure what it is doing

It's a workaround for line length limitations in the NT shell.

> , but from the comment shouldn't 
> this only be done if the shell is not bash ?
>
> if $(NT) {
> JAMSHELL on $(<) = % ;
> }

IIUC, NT is never defined when running under bash.

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