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From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-27 11:55:05


On Sep 27, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "K. Noel Belcourt" <kbelco_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> but I believe it is erroneous to pass -F to ld without an
>>> argument.
>>
>> That shouldn't happen. If it's happening; I think it's a bjam bug,
>
> It's a bjam bug. I added a test in tools/jam/test that verifies the
> problem exists. "$(x:D)", when x doesn't have a dir, is returning an
> empty string instead of an empty list:
>
> C:\DevRoots\Boost\boost\tools\jam\test>..\src\bin.ntx86\bjam -f
> test.jam
> --- Testing SHELL builtin...
> --- Testing W32_GETREGNAMES builtin...
> --- Testing var expansion...
> --- Testing var on target semantics...
> --- Testing var expansion...
> var_expand.jam:14: error: [FAILED] '' (==)
> --- Complete: PASSED(25) *FAILED(1)*

Thanks for following up with this Rene. I was starting to think it
was something I'd done.

-- Noel


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