Re: [Boost-build] [cygwin] can't build bjam

From: Juergen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-29 12:42:57

Hi Rene !

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 19:13, Rene Rivera wrote:
> Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> > It seems this is the mysterious path issue again.
>
> Grrr :-(

Exactly.

> Hm, I think the only info would be what this code.. does for your
> cygwin install...
>
>      char cygpath[256];
>      cygwin_conv_to_posix_path("c:\\foo\\bar", cygpath);
>
> The key info is the value of "cygpath". The above is part of the
> var_expand_unit_test function in expand.c. So perhaps you can run the
> jam0.exe in GDB, set a break point at the above point, and see what
> happens.

I'll give it try tomorrow morning. It will be the first time I use gdb 
on cygwin, so don't expect too much from me :-))
Or I add a simple printf statement, which should give the needed answer 
too.

> Unfortunately the docs on cygwin_conv_to_posix_path are rather slim
> <http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-to-posix-path.html
>> so using it is a hit and miss effort.

Wow. Thats _really_ short. And there are no source available, I guess ?

Yours,

Jürgen

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