Re: [Boost-users] Can't build Boost on Windows

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-02 18:10:35

Ronald Levine wrote:
> Thank you, Joaquin, that has worked for me.
> 
> It would be helpful, it would have saved me some time, to have a
> pointer to this resource on the "Getting Started" page.

The new "Getting Started" Dave is writing for the 1.34 release (using 
BBv2) does precisely that :-)

And for historical records, we managed to find the problem and solution 
to the spawn problem on Windows a short time ago during an IRC session. 
It turns out that it's an OS "bug". If your PATH environment variable is 
"very long" it causes failures on searching through the path to fail in 
this context. The "solution" is to  shorten the PATH, for example by 
using 8.3 names.

HTH.

[For archive searching use.]
> ERROR: spawn: Invalid argument
> PROBLEM: Long PATH variable
> SOLUTION: Shorten PATH

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