bjam crashes when building Boost on Windows

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, When trying to build boost 1.33.1 this afternoon, I encountered a problem with bjam just crashing every time I invoked it when targeting Windows. I've debugged the problem as being files with dates < 1900 in directories being searched by the glob expansions (I had a rogue file from 1757 in C:\Windows\). file_dirscan in filent.c invokes the MSCRT function _tfindnext64i32, which will eventually assert if the date is too far back in time. It's a documented limitation of the function, so my suggestion would be to FAQ this "bug" for the (very few) people it's likely to bite. Thanks, adamw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEwlW/9mihfAI44D0RAtyDAJ46wfH9UBhsz58nNTtKTyftI0l1igCghVD1 s18ec8+vbIevjIskC40W9Rc= =i7Ap -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Adam Wright