Re: [jamboost] Re: bbv2 - nightly build unusable due to something util/path.jam

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-06 03:32:06

On Thursday 05 May 2005 08:36, Mal Cifuentes wrote:
> Hi,
> I've had a look in path.jam, in particular the glob-one function and
> found the following code to be failing (path.jam, line 252, glob-one
> function):
> result += [ GLOB $(dir) : $(p) ] ;
>
> In the instance where it fails for me it is being called with the
> following: result += [ GLOB / : workarea ] ;
>
> result = <unkown> - I can't ECHO the contents.
>
> /workarea is a mount point in my system to c:\workarea.

What's the output of

ls /

? The previous problem with /cygpath was that 'cygpath' did not show in 
"ls /". Probably it's the same problem. I frankly don't understand why cygwin 
does not show existing paths, but probably it's cygwin-specific quirk.

- Volodya

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