Re: [Boost-build] really dumb problem trying to use bjam to build with gcc compiler

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-29 12:32:38

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>   Hi Robert
> 
>> When I try to run tests with bjam I get the following:
>>
>> ...
>> boost-test(RUN) "config/no_wchar_t_pass" : 
>> "libs/config/test/no_wchar_t_pass.cpp"
>> ...patience...
>> ...found 3341 targets...
>> ...updating 1757 targets...
>> MkDir1 ..\..\..\bin.v2
>> spawn: No such file or directory
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know what I have to fix to make this work?  Is this
>> enough of a hint?
> 
>   Hmm, try running with -d2 and see the exact commands executed. Perhaps 
> that can give you a hint.
> 
>   From this I do not really know where this 'spawn' message comes from.

As Volodya correctly remembered, this is a problem on Windows when the 
PATH env var gets really long. The error is reported from bjam but the 
error originates in the MSVC runtime library.

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