Re: [Boost-build] [Accumulators] Problem building the combined boost documentation.

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-01 12:20:15

Daniel James wrote:
> 2008/7/1 Jurko Gospodnetic' <jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden]>:
>>  Forgot to mention in my previous post I tried it on Windows XP, not Ubuntu.
>>
>>  Also, I just tried it some more this morning including trying to fool
>> around with the BuildDir options but all paths kepts getting detected
>> consistently.
> 
> It fails to build on both Ubuntu and OS X. So I assume the problem
> might be on all Posix based systems - possibly including Cygwin if
> you're windows only. 

Yes, it fails on Cygwin, too. That's what I'm using. I've sync'ed trunk, 
rebuilt bjam and am still seeing the error.

> The solution might be just to use 'mkdir -p' on
> these platforms, when the '-p' flag is used mkdir doesn't return an
> error is the directory already exists

Treating the symptom, eh? OK, but there may be a deeper problem with 
POSIX path handling here.

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