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

From: Jürgen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-30 02:36:40

Hi Rene !

Am Middeweken 29 März 2006, 19:42 schrieb Juergen Hunold:

> > 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.

gdb is hard for someone who is used to have log files, debug messages and 
kdbg ;-))

So I've put in some printfs just before the assert (see diff) and get (see 
debug.txt):

/c/foo/bar for cygpath.

Does this help ?

Yours,

Jürgen
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