Hi all, Sorry for this e-mail, since it is more of a complaint. But I do feel the urge to raise this problem to the community so that some solution could be derived soon. The current build system (1.33/34 from CVS) creates subdirectories for each variant/ subvariant specified in the BUILD environment. When more user customizations are specified, the consequence of this is very deep directory structures. Nonetheless, some OSes imposes stringent limits on how long a path can go (e.g., Win2k/XP limits a path name to be 259 characters long maximum). There causes big problem with the building system when error can occur from nowhere in Boost source code itself. This constraint effectively limits how much customization a user can make (e.g., I had to remove some additional optimization/ tuning parameters for subvariants, and SUBST'ed the Boost directory in order to reduce the path name length). So my question is, why can we not be smarter in this to derive alternatives to make the directory structure shallower (or, simply reduce the length of the names of each subvariant directory)? Sorry again if this sound too demanding, but I do consider it an important usability limitation of the current Boost build system. Cheers, Freddie -- Wu Yinghui, Freddie Research & Development Software Engineer Volume Interactions Pte Ltd 1 Kim Seng Promenade, #12-01 Great World City East Tower Singapore 237994 Tel: +65 62226962 (Ext 216) Fax: +65 62226215 Email: yhwu@volumeinteractions.com URL: http://www.volumeinteractions.com Important: This message is intended for the recipient(s) addressed above. It contains privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and then delete it from your system. You must not read, copy, use, or disseminate this communication in any form. Thank you.