Re: [Boost-build] [boost] path length too long for 64 bits builds

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [boost] path length too long for 64 bits builds
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (gevbsd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-27 07:10:06

On 27.10.2017 9:24, Vicente J. Botet Escriba via Boost wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> we have an issue since we have added threadapi= .
>
>
> On 64 bits windows machines we are seen
>
> Austin Beer said in 
> https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/188#issuecomment-339829423
>
> "FYI, the 64-bit Windows builds are failing due the unit tests 
> exceeding the 260 character filepath limit on Windows. Every filepath 
> includes 
> |\msvc-14.1\debug\address-model-64\threadapi-win32\threading-multi|. 
> Do you know if there is an easy way to shorten this? On the 32-bit 
> builds the filepaths don't have |\address-model-64| which is just 
> enough to keep them under the 260 character limit so they don't fail."
>
>
> Is there a workaround to this issue without changing the specific part 
> of the test files folder structure?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Vicente
>
>
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HTH,

Gevorg