Re: [Boost-users] Re: Newbie help in compiling boost

From: Murali Krishnan Ganapathy (gmkrishn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-16 19:28:37

I have traced the problem with mkdir, though whether the build completes 
or not,
only time will tell (it is currently building the python and the C 
libraries).

The problem with mkdir still baffles me. It is to do with the %TEMP% or 
%TMP% variable.
On my machine both %TEMP% and %TMP% expand to "C:\Documents and 
Settings\Maha & Murali\..."
I confirm this when I see the "environment variables" listing
(My Computer -> Properites -> Advanced -> Environment Variables). However
when I do a "SET" on the command prompt %TEMP% expands to "C:\DOCUME~1\..."
the underlying DOS file name.

I guess boost.jam creates the directory in TEMP and then moves it over 
(why?).
When boost.jam tries to make a directory it tries to access %TEMP%.
Machine complains that there is no "C;\DOCUME~1\...." (it is not 
checking the 8.3 version I guess)
and the mkdir1 fails.

The work around is to have a simple %TEMP% and %TMP%.
I reset %TEMP% and %TMP% to "C:\Temp" (no spaces and less than 8 chars), 
now boost is
building as I write this.

I guess this should be considered as a minor bug in bjam?

- Murali

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:

> After more investigation
> * Confirmed that bjam is in the PATH
> * I have captured the first few lines of the output (below)
> ------------ OUTPUT HEADER -------
> ...patience...
> ...found 9076 targets...
> ...updating 3307 targets...
> MkDir1 C:\Boost
>
>    mkdir  "C:\Boost"
>
> ...failed MkDir1 C:\Boost...
> .----------------------------- END OF HEADER -------------
>
> It looks like it fails on directory creation. I am running this as the 
> administrator,
> so it cannot be a permission problem. Just to make sure I created the 
> C:\Boost
> by hand and re-ran the bjam invocation. This time the top few lines read
>
> ------------------ OUTPUT HEADER ------
> ...patience...
> ...found 9076 targets...
> ...updating 3306 targets...
> MkDir1 C:\Boost\lib
>
>    mkdir  "C:\Boost\lib"
>
> ...failed MkDir1 C:\Boost\lib...
> -------------- END HEADER --------
>
> confirming what I suspected. Since this is the first time I am using 
> bjam, I dont know
> how to fix this.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> - Murali
>
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>> Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
>>
>>> Platform: Windows XP
>>> Compiler: VC7 (Visual Studio .NET)
>>> Shell: Cmd.exe
>>> BJAM: Prebuilt version 3.1.10-1-ntx86 from sourceforge
>>> Boost Version: 1.31.0
>>>
>>> On the prompt:
>>> * set PYTHON_ROOT=C:\Python23
>>> * set PYTHON_VERSION=2.3
>>> * C:\Program Files\...\VC7\bin\VCVARS32.BAT (execute this)
>>> * bjam "-sTOOLS=vc7" install
>>
>>
>>
>> Nice! Thanks for listing the basic info most people don't mention :-)
>>
>>> I get a whole lot of lines of the form
>>> ...skipped XXX for lack of YYY...
>>> and finally get
>>>
>>> ...failed updating 2 targets
>>> ...skipped 3077 targets
>>>
>>> Any pointers on what I am doing wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> What you did looks reasonable. What the failures you are seeing? What 
>> does it skip building? Are they compile errors?
>>
>> --grafik
>>
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