Re: [Boost-build] How do I find the Unescaped character?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How do I find the Unescaped character?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-07 13:57:16

AMDG

On 07/06/2018 10:06 PM, Kuhl, Brian via Boost-build wrote:
> I'm getting some error messages from b2  when building Boost 1.67.
> If I pipe the output of the build to a file the errors are much less likely to occur.
> Any idea what might be casing this?
> > <snip>
> /yow-build40-lx1/bkuhl/workspace/vsbSR540/3pp/BOOST/boost_1_67_0/libs/predef/check/../tools/check/predef.jam:46: Unescaped special character in argument $(language)::$(expression)
> ../libs/algorithm/test/Jamfile.v2:19: Unescaped special character in argument algorithm:
> ../libs/algorithm/minmax/test/Jamfile.v2:18: Unescaped special character in argument algorithm/minmax:
> ../libs/contract/test/Jamfile.v2:417: Unescaped special character in argument <define>BOOST_CONTRACT_ON_MISSING_CHECK_DECL="{ throw err(); }"
> ../libs/lexical_cast/test/Jamfile.v2:35: Unescaped special character in argument <cxxflags>/Zc:wchar_t-
> 

It's the ':' and ';'.  This is currently only a warning,
but it does need to be cleaned up.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe