Re: [Boost-build] How to generate .exe suffix under Cygwin only

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to generate .exe suffix under Cygwin only
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-10 16:35:00

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 Andrej van der Zee wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > Use SVN HEAD of Boost.Build, or nightly build.
> > 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I tried the nightly build. I successfully build bjam for toolset msvc
....
> $ ls /usr/local/src/boost-build
> boost-build.jam  boost.png  boost_build.png  bootstrap.jam  build  build-system.jam  contrib  debian  doc  example  hacking.txt  index.html  jam_src  kernel  notes  options  site-config.jam  test  timestamp.txt  tools  user-config.jam  util
> 
> What am I doing wrong???

You are compiling bjam with msvc. Naturally, msvc runtime has no idea about paths suchs as /usr/local.
You need to compile bjam in cygwin shell using gcc.

- Volodya