Paul A Bristow wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock Sent: 24 October 2007 08:01 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] on quickbook/docbook etc
I now get a bunch of errors of the type:
Any ideas?
Yes: the paths in user-config.jam need to use *forward slashes* even when they're Windows paths, since \ is a Jam-language escape character :-(
Right! I'm sure many users fall into this trap, including me.
*Please* can we have a comment warning about this - and the bizarre 'you need spaces' syntax.
I'm sure this simple addition would avoid a big load of grief - there's a lot of it about where bjam is involved.
Comment where? user-config.jam, or boost-build docs or getting started? - Volodya