Re: [Boost-users] Trouble building Boost for Comeau

David Abrahams wrote:

Edward Diener writes:

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When I attempt to build the Boost libraries for the Comeau compiler using vc71 as my backend, each build line fails with:

"Command-line error #595: too many arguments on command line"

Is there a workaround to this problem ? I am surprised to see that for compilers which support the use of a file to hold command line parameters the build process does not use this technique, which leads to such an error.

The build process generally does use this technique, and the como-win32 toolset uses it for linking where command-line overflows are common. Are you saying it's needed for compilation too?

My build was failing because the Comeau compiler does not accept a file name with spaces in it, and my Boost installation is in a path with spaces in it.