Re: [Boost-build] building boost in cygwin using msvc

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 00:55:05

Andrej van der Zee wrote:
> Now I have another problem with running bjam in Cywin.
> I am using bjam from the boost source tree (i.e.
> tools/jam/src/bin.ntx86/bjam) and it runs fine. But,
> it redirects errors to >nul and only tells me whether
> it succeeds or fails (it does not give me the compiler
> output). Running bjam with -d2 gives me output like
> the following:
> 
> cmd.exe /S /C call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul "&&" cl /Zm800
> -nologo
> @"bin\msvc-9.0\debug\threading-multi\ticpp.obj.rsp"
> 
> Removing the >nul from the command gives me the
> compiler errors, but I obviously do not want to spell
> out the whole command every time.
> 
> How can I fix this?

That ">nul" should *only* redirect the output of the "vcvarsall.bat" 
script. The output from "cl.exe" should go to the console as usual. And 
as can be seen in the Boost regression reports 
<http://tinyurl.com/3pqfh6> it does seem to work as intended in other 
systems.

So, I'm not sure how you are not getting the output.

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