Re: strange behaviour at setup on windows2000

From: Anthony Lichnewsky (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-16 13:44:41

> You've gotta be kidding me.  Are you positive?  I've never seen
> anything like this.

I am 100% positive !!!
I ran the whole installation three times, and every time it was the same.
I have been using boost under linux for a while, I expected it to be 
straigthforward to use on windows too... it is, except for this.
I wouldn't have mailed if I was not sure.

> You can say that again!
OK ;)
"setting those files to read-only was enough"

I just thought it was worth reporting it, although I didn't find the 
reason it occured ...

David Abrahams wrote:
 > Anthony Lichnewsky <yg-boost-users_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >
 >>I had the following trouble setting up boost 1.29.0 on windows 2000
 >>(using vc7, but that's not the point)
 >>
 >>the first thing bjam did (the version downloaded from sourceforge) was
 >>to erase all the files and folders in tools\
 >
 >
 > You've gotta be kidding me.  Are you positive?  I've never seen
 > anything like this.
 >
 >
 >>so that no build could be performed... setting those files to
 >>read-only was enough but that's an unexpected behaviour.
 >
 >
 > You can say that again!
 >