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? - Murali Stephen Jackson wrote:

Jeff Flinn wrote:

...

...

...

I guess this should be considered as a minor bug in bjam?

Maybe so. Any Win/DOS experts out there who can suggest a correct fix?

NT, 2K and XP maintain "C:\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\Local Settings\Temp" directories for each user. Changing this to C:\Temp could cause problems for users w/out admin privileges. I've no problems with vc7.1 builds, and I imagine a lot of others utilize the same platform and can build as well. So it's not a general problem.

It seems to me that the issue is having a user-name with an ampersand in it. OP says: 'On my machine both %TEMP% and %TMP% expand to "C:\Documents and Settings\Maha & Murali\..."'

I don't have a problem building boost with this kind of set-up, but I have created an account "his&hers" and logged in to that account. I now get similar symptoms as the OP.

What's the solution? Possibly bjam needs to quote %TEMP%, e.g.

[begin cmd.exe session] C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>set | \bin\fgrep MP COMPUTERNAME=CALEB PROMPT=$P$G TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\his&hers\LOCALS~1\Temp TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\his&hers\LOCALS~1\Temp

C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>dir %TEMP% Volume in drive C is Caleb-C Volume Serial Number is 5A22-6B08

Directory of C:\DOCUME~1

File Not Found The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers>dir "%TEMP%" Volume in drive C is Caleb-C Volume Serial Number is 5A22-6B08

Directory of C:\DOCUME~1\his&hers\LOCALS~1\Temp

17/09/2004 18:19 <DIR> . 17/09/2004 18:19 <DIR> .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 257,179,648 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\his&hers> [end cmd.exe session]

HTH,

Stephen Jackson _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users

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