Re: Non-portable paths in bbv1

From: Johan Nilsson (johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-30 02:38:15

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:u8yc0sqf9.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> "Johan Nilsson" <johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > I figured I'd just repeat part of my previous posting, which might be of
> > more general interest.
> >

[snip]

>
> The design intention was that forward slashes should always work
> portably in Jamfiles, and that if-and-when someone started trying to
> build Boost on VMS, we would build the neccessary path translation
> code into the build system. So, the solution is to hack the contents
> of tools/build/v1/*.jam, not individual Jamfiles.

Thanks, now working myself through allyourbase/boost-base.jam.

// Johan