Re: [Boost-build] Any way to install a source tree?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-25 11:55:58

Mark Evans wrote:
> Thanks Vladimir,
> 
>> From my limited perspective, it appears that a glob that recurses
>> through a tree (that I would call FIND-GLOB) would best be
>> implemented through a new builtin primitive.  Would you agree?
>> Semi-ironically, there already is a GLOB-RECURSIVELY built-in, but
>> it doesn't recurse the tree as needed.

Well it might be better to make the functionality match the name. So 
what is the difference between GLOB and GLOB-RECURSIVELY (as currently 
implemented)?

> I tried building bjam (on CYGWIN) with --debug in preparation for
> work on this but unfortunately this causes bjam to fail an assertion:
> 
> 
> assertion "self->size < self->capacity" failed: file "strings.c",
> line 20
> 
> Is this a known problem?

It's been mentioned before. But we've never been able to track down 
where and how to fix it.

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