Re: [Boost-build] [temporary patch] Re: Problem with Boost Build/Jam recognizing different paths to the same entity as separate targets.

From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-07 03:04:43

2008/7/7 Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]>:
>
> But alas it is causing my windows builds to fail. From the Vista command
> prompt with a native win32 bjam, I get this when trying to run the foreach
> tests:
>
> ...updating 200 targets...
> MkDir1-quick-fix-for-unix ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\foreach
> MkDir1-quick-fix-for-unix ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\foreach\test
> A subdirectory or file -p already exists.
> Error occurred while processing: -p.
>
>    mkdir -p "..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\foreach\test"
>
> ...failed MkDir1-quick-fix-for-unix ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\foreach\test...
>
> Looks like the patch thinks I'm on a unix system.

Since we're getting further along the release process it might be
better to leave the build system alone now and work around this in the
release script. Which really is 'treating the symptom' but at least
it's unlikely that it will break anything. Does that sound sensible?

Daniel