Re: boost jam and minGW: another brief note

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-07 08:04:54

"ANDREW MARLOW, BLOOMBERG/ LONDON OF" <amarlow1_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Guys,
>
> I forgot to mention, I am having problems with
> boost jam for minGW only because I am trying to
> use jam from a minGW shell. One of the advantages
> of using minGW over cygwin is that minGW produces
> standalone executables that can be run in a DOS shell.
> When boost jam for minGW is run from a DOS shell
> everything is fine. Maybe that it why no-one else
> seems to have found the problems I have found.

So far we haven't ever promised to support shells other than real
Unix, Cygwin, and the standard NT command prompt.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com