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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-17 15:01:48

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy <gmkrishn_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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?
>

Yes.  Most of what bjam does is via command-lines or its builtin and
portable interpreted language.  Calling platform-specific 'C'
functions is kept to a minimum.

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Dave Abrahams
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