Re: Re: bjam and windows command line problem.

From: Fernando Cacciola (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-21 12:37:35

"John Maddock" <john_maddock_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:018901c2775b$83735c20$4d3287d9_at_1016031671...
> > Unfortunately, bjam is somewhat limited by the underlying shell used
> > to actually run the build commands. We've had a hard time getting it
> > to cooperate with Win9x for that reason. John Maddock has had some
> > success by building and running bjam under Cygwin, which has no
> > command-line length limitation. I'm not sure whether it can be made to
> > run the Borland toolset that way or not, but I know that John targets
> > Borland so it's a good bet.
>
> At one stage that did work, but not any more, the cygwin build will only
> build cygwin apps (it's a problem with the way in which cygwin passes
> absolute paths to the programs it spawns).
>
I see. Pity.

> You can probably build all you want from the IDE pretty easily - many
people
> do that all the time.
>
Yes... I've been doing this all the time, but rather because I didn't take
the time to learn how to use the build system.
At least now I know how to interpret jamfiles, so I guess it will be easy to
'port them' to Borland makefiles.

Thanks,

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Fernando Cacciola