Yeap...removing the quotes sorted it. Thx for the feedback.
If memory serves, it was indeed the DX SDK installer that
added those!
Cheers,
Kos
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-build-bounces lists.boost.org
> [mailto:boost-build-bounceslists.boost.org] On Behalf
Of Rene Rivera
> Sent: 12 June 2007 16:27
> To: Boost.Build developer's and user's list
> Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Problem building jam_src on
win32
> with latest nightly build
>
> Kostas Kostiadis wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I got the latest nightly build (timestamp Tue Jun
12
> 17:34:40 MSD 2007) and
> > I can't build bjam on win32.
> > When I go into boost-buildjam_src and run
build.bat on a
> dos box, I get the
> > following:
> >
> > D:Tempboost-buildjam_src>build.bat
> > Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual
Studio 2005
> x86 tools.
> > UtilitiesBinx86";c:cygwinbin;[rest of my
path goes here]" was
> > unexpected at this time.
>
> Hm, that would be because build.bat quotes all
arguments to allow for
> spaces and other batch special chars.
>
> > My path starts as follows:
> > "C:Program FilesMicrosoft DirectX SDK
(August
> > 2006)UtilitiesBinx86";c:cygwinbin;[rest
of my path goes here]
> >
> > I think build.bat gets confused with the brackets
of the
> DirectX SDK part of
> > the path, i.e. the "(August 2006)" bit.
> > Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> There is no need to have quotes inside the path, remove
them. If the
> DXSDK installer added that path, complain to Microsoft
that they are
> breaking their own software.
>
>
>
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