id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
1047,Small Problem with the getting started guide making the whole build fail,ben04_01@…,Dave Abrahams,"Near the place where it says how to invoke bjam the following is written

C:WINDOWS> cd C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0
C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0> bjam ^
More? --build-dir=%TEMP%\build-boost ^
More? --toolset=msvc stage

That command line actually doesn't work. At least on my PC. %TEMP% expands to

DOCUME~1\HP_PRO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp

bjam tries to make sure that the directory exists and therefore tries to create it. However mkdir doesn't seem to like the short file version and fails in a way which results in bjam not building anything. Replacing %TEMP% with some directory without short file name made the build work.

I'd suggest replacing the commandline with

C:WINDOWS> cd C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0
C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0> bjam ^
More? --build-dir=C:\my_temp\build-boost ^
More? --toolset=msvc stage

There certainly are more important issues but it's just frustrating when bjam strikes and you copied pasted the suggest command line.",Bugs,closed,To Be Determined,Building Boost,,Showstopper,fixed,,