Re: boost jam and mingw

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-07 08:01:44

Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>>ANDREW MARLOW, BLOOMBERG/ LONDON OF wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I am struggling to get a version of
>>>>>boost jam built for mingw.
>>>>>build.bat gcc-nocygwin produces
>> 
>> But in a strange way his comments still apply. There is a 'mingw' 
>> toolset for building bjam. I don't have MinGW installed right now, but 
>> the following was working last I checked:
>
> And I just installed MinGW-3.1.0.
>
>> set BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=C:\MinGW
>
> Oops that should be "set BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=C:\MinGW\" - Note the 
> "\" at the end.

Can't we make the build script resilient to whether the slash is
supplied?

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Dave Abrahams
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