"Foster, Gareth"
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 http://www.boost-consulting.com