Re: [Boost-build] Change of target's path from relative to absolute

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Change of target's path from relative to absolute
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-12 02:29:54

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 John Bito wrote:

> I just deployed the HEAD of Boost.Build (at 55533) and my integration
> build server got a failure, seemingly because a command line exceeded
> some limit.  It appears that the build now is passing full path names
> to the actions where it formerly passed relative names.  Does that
> sound like a consequence of a change in Boost.Build?  Maybe because
> the module with the target rule is imported at the root of the build??
>  Still trying to track this down.

I don't know, offhand, about any change that could have caused this.
Maybe, you can try passing the --hash option to shorten the paths,
assuming you also have fresh Boost.Jam?

- Volodya