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

From: Murali Krishnan Ganapathy (gmkrishn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-17 14:18:31

Much more reasonable explanation. The & should be the cause of the problem.
But why should bjam create a .CMD file to "mkdir X" and then execute, it.
Why not use the C function to create the directory X directly?

Unless I am missing something here. Perhaps something to do with 
portability?

- Murali

Stephen Jackson wrote:

> Jeff Flinn wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> I guess this should be considered as a minor bug in bjam?
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe so.  Any Win/DOS experts out there who can suggest a correct
>>> fix?
>>
>>
>>
>> NT, 2K and XP maintain "C:\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\Local
>> Settings\Temp" directories for each user. Changing this to C:\Temp could
>> cause problems for users w/out admin privileges. I've no problems 
>> with vc7.1
>> builds, and I imagine a lot of others utilize the same platform and can
>> build as well. So it's not a general problem.
>>
>
> It seems to me that the issue is having a user-name with an ampersand 
> in it. OP says: 'On my machine both %TEMP% and %TMP% expand to 
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Maha & Murali\..."'
>
> I don't have a problem building boost with this kind of set-up, but I 
> have created an account "his&hers" and logged in to that account. I 
> now get similar symptoms as the OP.
>
> What's the solution? Possibly bjam needs to quote %TEMP%, e.g.
>
> [begin cmd.exe session]
> C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>set | \bin\fgrep MP
> COMPUTERNAME=CALEB
> PROMPT=$P$G
> TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\his&hers\LOCALS~1\Temp
> TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\his&hers\LOCALS~1\Temp
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>dir %TEMP%
>  Volume in drive C is Caleb-C
>  Volume Serial Number is 5A22-6B08
>
>  Directory of C:\DOCUME~1
>
> File Not Found
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>dir "%TEMP%"
>  Volume in drive C is Caleb-C
>  Volume Serial Number is 5A22-6B08
>
>  Directory of C:\DOCUME~1\his&hers\LOCALS~1\Temp
>
> 17/09/2004  18:19    <DIR>          .
> 17/09/2004  18:19    <DIR>          ..
>                0 File(s)              0 bytes
>                2 Dir(s)     257,179,648 bytes free
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>
> [end cmd.exe session]
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Stephen Jackson
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