[Boost-users] Re: Bjam and cygwin

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-24 00:59:43

"Foster, Gareth" <gareth.foster_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Just for other peoples information (these mails show up in an searchable
> online archive somewhere afterall afaik), I fixed this problem by setting
> the path 'in a windows' way, rather than a unix way, even though I was
> building from the cygwin shell. That means ...
>
> bjam "-sTOOLS=GCC" "--target=/usr/local" install
>
> Becomes ...
>
> bjam "-sTOOLS=GCC" "--target=c:\cygwin\usr\local" install
>
> That's from memory, so excuse any slight inacuracies in the syntax there. It
> does get rid of the <directory-guist> weirdness.
>
> Hope this helps somebody somewhere.
>
> Regards

That's surely because you're using a bjam that was built for windows,
not for Cygwin.  If you rebuild bjam under Cygwin I think you'll see
that Cygwin paths work.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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