Re: [Boost-build] <install-source-root> in Windows doesn't work with case-insensitive matching

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] <install-source-root> in Windows doesn't work with case-insensitive matching
From: Jose . (kasty.jose_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-22 10:06:05

I got to compile and I'm starting to debug it. The problem was that I was
using "build.bat vc12 --debug" and in this case vcvarsall.bat complains
about a missing argument. If I do "build.bat msvc --debug" it uses visual
studio 2008 (vc9) which builds the b2.exe and the .PDB as expected. I'll
tell you if I find anything interesting.

2014-03-22 14:45 GMT+01:00 Jose . <kasty.jose_at_[hidden]>:

> The bug seems to be in the native implementation of GLOB, in bjam.exe. I
> would like to build the engine with msvc toolset in debug mode with .PDB
> symbols. How can I do that? Right now when linking bjam.exe we don't get a
> .PDB (with Jam0.exe we have it, but I guess that's the bootstrap process, a
> different animal, isn't it?).
>
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> 2014-03-22 2:39 GMT+01:00 Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>:
>
> AMDG
>>
>> On 03/21/2014 05:45 PM, Jose . wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> > /C:/Jam/aaaa/b/c/file.txt  (see that "aaaa" is lower-case but "Jam" is
>> not)
>> >
>> > I would understand that all characters are converted to lower-case for
>> case
>> > insensitive matching, but some of them don't, which is weird. As I say,
>> in
>> > small programs it seems to work ok, I only found it in bigger ones.
>> >
>>
>> In theory, the underlying Jam functions normalize
>> paths to match the actual names in the filesystem.
>>
>> > 2) This is probably worse: <install-source-root> doesn't seem to
>> down-case
>> > before trying to match. Hence, the install rule results in this:
>> >
>> > common.copy C:\Jam\z\..\AaAa\b\c\file.txt
>> >
>> > when in fact it should look like this:
>> >
>> > common.copy C:\Jam\z\b\c\file.txt
>> >
>> >
>> > Any clue what happened and how to solve it? (at least problem 2)
>> >
>>
>> You can hack it in path.relative-to (in util/path.jam)
>> by changing the comparison to $(split1[1]:L) = $(split2[1]:L).
>>
>> In Christ,
>> Steven Watanabe
>>
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