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

From: Andrej van der Zee (mavdzee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-27 10:00:52

> 
>    Could you please test whether:
> 
>                  setup-prefix = "cmd.exe /S /C call
> " ;
>                  setup-suffix = " \">nul\" \"&&\" "
> ;
> 
>    works for you, as opposed to:
> 
>                  setup-prefix = "cmd.exe /S /C call
> " ;
>                  setup-suffix = " \">nul\" && " ;
> 
>    As I see is these quotes around && are needed or
> otherwise && gets 
> interpreted by the bash shell.
> 

You are right, when I remove the quotes from msvc.jam,
the bash interprets cl as a new command because the &&
is interpreted by bash (hence bash sees two commands
instead of one) instead of passed to cmd.exe. Here is
the output:

compile-c-c++
bin/msvc-9.0/debug/threading-multi/response_default.obj
/bin/sh: line 1: cl: command not found

    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\response_default.obj.rsp"

...failed compile-c-c++
bin/msvc-9.0/debug/threading-multi/response_default.obj...

Greets,
Andrej

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