[Boost-users] Re: Newbie help in compiling boost

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy writes:

Much more reasonable explanation. The & should be the cause of the problem. But why should bjam create a .CMD file to "mkdir X" and then execute, it. Why not use the C function to create the directory X directly?

Unless I am missing something here. Perhaps something to do with portability?

Yes. Most of what bjam does is via command-lines or its builtin and portable interpreted language. Calling platform-specific 'C' functions is kept to a minimum. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com