[Boost-users] bjam crashes when building Boost on Windows

From: Adam Wright (adamw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-22 12:43:43

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Hi all,

When trying to build boost 1.33.1 this afternoon, I encountered a
problem with bjam just crashing every time I invoked it when targeting
Windows.

I've debugged the problem as being files with dates < 1900 in
directories being searched by the glob expansions (I had a rogue file
from 1757 in C:\Windows\). file_dirscan in filent.c invokes the MSCRT
function _tfindnext64i32, which will eventually assert if the date is
too far back in time. It's a documented limitation of the function, so
my suggestion would be to FAQ this "bug" for the (very few) people it's
likely to bite.

Thanks,

adamw
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