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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Wiki to disappear: docs in progress
From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-13 00:02:27


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>>> Please check
>>> C:/boost/release-cmake-build/_CPack_Packages/win32/NSIS/NSISOutput.log
>>> for errors
>>> CPack Error: Problem compressing the directory
>>> CPack Error: Error when generating package: Boost
>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake
>>> 2.6\bin\cpack.exe"' : return code '0x1'
>>> Stop.
>>>
>>> One clue might be that the CMake setup shows the UNZIP value as
>>> "C:/bgd/util/unzip.exe" That's almost certainly not the unzip program
>>> CMake expects. Perhaps I need to install cygwin zip/unzip programs?
>>> I'll see if they've got anything by that name.
>>>
>> I don't think zip should affect nsis.
>>
>>
>> What is in here:
>> C:/boost/release-cmake-build/_CPack_Packages/win32/NSIS/NSISOutput.log
>
> I zipped up the log together with project.nsi and one other file.
>
> See http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/NSIS.zip

Thanks! I committed some changes to the release branch that will, I
think, work around this problem. It looks like "foreach" is a special
variable in NSIS, and we have a library named "foreach", which appears
to have caused the failure. Of course, I can't test it on my Mac :)

  - Doug


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