Re: [Boost-build] bjam command line for borland compilers

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-04 12:19:12

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2008 21:50:58 Robert Ramey wrote:
>> My previous email, I mis copied the information
>>
>> Here is the tail of my bjam.log
>> ...patience...
>> ...patience...
>> ...found 3561 targets...
>> ...updating 1516 targets...
>> MkDir1
>> ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\serialization\test\test_array_text_archive.test\borland-5.64
>> spawn: No such file or directory
>
> IIRC, this error means, "PATH is too long", or something.
>
>>
>> and here is the command line I'm invoking
>>
>> bjam --dump-tests --toolset=borland-5.64 >bjam.log 2>&1
>>
>> here is my path
>>
>> $ echo $PATH
>> c:/Program Files/Borland/CBuilder6/bin;./;c:/Program
>> Files/MKS/mksnt;c:/bin;c:/m
>> enu;C:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Projects\Bpl
>
> You have a PATH element with newline?

The new line is just an artifact from the way I copied into the email.

> Do things work when using NT
> build of bjam, and when bjam is run in cmd.exe shell?

I used to run this quite a long time ago.  I also note that one of the 
testers has made this work.

I'll try running this from a different command shell.  Thanks for the 
suggestion.

Robert Ramey