Re: [Boost-users] boost-io streams building with zlib/bzip2 again

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost-io streams building with zlib/bzip2 again
From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-22 03:20:41

Sean Farrow wrote:
> Hi:
> Ok, This is now sorted, but in the process, I may have found a bug,
> if I specify a path on windows using a full path:
> C:\progrma files\zlib\

I assume that's another typo?

> This doesn't work I get a c1083 error.
> But if I use "c:\progra~1\zlib\" as the path this works fine.
> Is this a bug, or intended beheavour?

It's a problem related to passing variables containing spaces to bjam. See 
if this helps:

http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/html/jam/usage.html#jam.usage.options.command_line_and_environment_variable_quoting

Regards / Johan