Re: [Boost-build] Boost build v2 - duplicate mkdir directives - 2nd fails

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-04 08:19:56

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:05, Nogradi, Christopher wrote:

> I am seeing a problem with v2 that is resulting in two commands to mkdir
> for the same directory which causes the second to fail since it reports
> that the directory exists.
>
>
>
> $ bjam --version
>
> Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 11)
>
> Boost.Jam 03.1.13
>
>
>
> $ bjam -n
>
> ...patience...
>
> ...patience...
>
> ...found 7842 targets...
>
> ...updating 173 targets...
>
> MkDir1 bin
>
>
>
>     mkdir "bin"

[snip]

>     mkdir "y:\ORCLE\DataRecorder\build\dataRecorder\bin"

>
> The first and last mkdir above appear to be the reason for the problem I
> am seeing.  If I run the build again after the failure, since the bin
> dir is now created, it succeeds.

I don't see any duplicate mkdir commands in the output you've posted, and the 
first and last mkdir commands appear to refer to different directories. Or do 
you mean that your current directory is 
y:\ORCLE\DataRecorder\build\dataRecorder?

> I am using the global build dir feature so that all my build artifacts
> are in the same tree where I run the bjam exe.

> Any help with this matter would be much appreciated.

Can you please post a minimal archived project that reproduces this problem?

Thanks,
Volodya