Re: [Boost-build] win32 problem: ..//target fails

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-11 06:13:02

On Saturday 07 July 2007 00:41, Ray Lambert wrote:

> (root)
>    /common
>       /tests
> 
> (root) has an empty Jamroot and 'common' and 'tests' each have a (very
> simple) Jamfile.  'common' builds a static lib and the targets in 'tests'
> try to link to it.
> 
> The Jamfile in 'common' looks like this:
> 
>   lib common : [ glob *.cpp ] : <include>. <include>.. <link>static ;
> 
> The Jamfile in 'tests' looks like this:
> 
>   exe xmltest : xmltest.cpp ..//common [ lib expat ] : <include>../.. ;

This "..//common", strictly speaking, refers to entire directory 'common', not
the target 'common' in directory common. You might want to try 

        ../common//common

but I can't see why that can matter.

> 'common' builds successfully.  When I try to build the target 'xmltest' in
> 'tests' I get the following error:
> 
>   error: Unable to find file or target named
>   error:     '..//common'
>   error: referred from project at
>   error:     '.'
> 
> Again, this all works perfectly on Linux.  I've seached quite a bit but I
> cannot find anything relating to bugs or alternative behaviour of the
> '..//common' syntax on windows.

Are you sure there's no upper-case-vs-lower-case problem going on? Again,
bjam is supposed to ignore case on windows, completely.

- Volodya