BJam and XEmacs on WinXP

From: Dan Muller (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-25 23:16:40

This may be a tad off-topic, but I couldn't find any reference to this 
relative to XEmacs, and the problem seems to be peculiar to bjam.

If I try to run bjam under XEmacs, e.g. via M-x compile, M-x 
shell-command, or even from inside an XEmacs shell buffer (running CMD), 
I get the error "spawn: Invalid argument". More specifically, if I run 
it via shell-command, I get this:

=====================
...found 331 targets...

...updating 1 target...

gcc-Archive-action 
..\phys_sim\bin\libphys_sim.lib\gcc-nocygwin\debug\architecture-native\debug-symbols-on\inlining-off\optimization-off\profiling-off\rtti-on\runtime-build-debug\runtime-link-dynamic\threading-single\vtable-thunks-default\libphys_sim.lib

spawn: Invalid argument
======================

... which indicates that bjam is in fact starting, but has some problem. 
Or maybe the tools do. If I run it in the same directory from a regular 
command window, it works fine.

I'm running XEmacs 21.4, with recently updated packages. The bjam 
executable was downloaded yesterday. (I'm trying to use it for something 
other than Boost, BTW.) The toolset I'm using is MinGW, the latest 
stable full-package release, with no package updates.

Anyone have an idea what might be wrong? I'm getting tired of looking at 
my build output in a command window and then hunting for line numbers in 
my source code. :-)