Re: [Boost-build] bjam - windows - drive letter - resolved

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bjam - windows - drive letter - resolved
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-26 02:58:24

Anant Rao wrote:
> Hi,
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> I finally figured out the issue that I reported yesterday.
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> Say, I have something like this in my Jamroot:
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> constant DICTIONARY_SRC : $(SHARED)/dictionary/src ;
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> If $(SHARED)    is C:/hudson/<blah>,  bjam fails with the following errors:
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> c:\Hudson\jobs\test_anant\workspace\dev\ThirdParty\Boost\boost_1_40_0\boost-build.jam:16: 
> in module scope
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> c:/Hudson/jobs/test_anant/workspace/dev/ThirdParty/Boost/boost_1_40_0/tools/build/v2/build\targets.jam:406: 
> in find-really
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> *** argument error
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> * rule project.find ( name : current-location )
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> * called with: ( libmempools :  )
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> * missing argument current-location
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> c:/Hudson/jobs/test_anant/workspace/dev/ThirdParty/Boost/boost_1_40_0/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:145:see 
> definition of rule 'find' being called
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> If $(SHARED)    is C:/Hudson/<blah>,  bjam works fine.
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> So, the diff is this:
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> C:/hudson     -> fails
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> C:/Hudson    -> works ok

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> Could somebody confirm this?

Could you try with nightly build as available at http://boost.org/boost-build2 ?
I think I've checked in a patch that should address a very similar failure mode.

- Volodya