Re: bjam exe for cygwin on win98

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-22 13:19:42

"Fernando Cacciola" <yg-boost-users_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:u1xvd8z63.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
>> "Fernando Cacciola" <yg-boost-users_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The link on http://www.boost.org/tools/build/index.html#Jam
>> >
>> > states that bjam executables can be found at:
>> >
>> >   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586
>> >
>> > but I don't know which of the bjams there is an executable for cygwin on win98
>>
>> There isn't one, but rebuilding from source is trivial.
>>
> OK.
>
> The page should be updated then, because it says that executables are available.

They are, but not for all imaginable platforms.  I guess there's an
implicit reference at the end

  "Cygwin users can use the cygwin executable to work around Windows
  9x command line length problems, but only if they are using
  cygwin-gcc compiler (other windows compilers don't play particularly
  well with this executable)." 

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