https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/1047 <p> Near the place where it says how to invoke bjam the following is written </p> <p> C:WINDOWS&gt; cd C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0 C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0&gt; bjam ^{More? --build-dir=%TEMP%\build-boost} More? --toolset=msvc stage </p> <p> That command line actually doesn't work. At least on my PC. %TEMP% expands to </p> <p> DOCUME~1\HP_PRO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> I'd suggest replacing the commandline with </p> <p> C:WINDOWS&gt; cd C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0 C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0&gt; bjam ^{More? --build-dir=C:\my_temp\build-boost} More? --toolset=msvc stage </p> <p> There certainly are more important issues but it's just frustrating when bjam strikes and you copied pasted the suggest command line. </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/1047 Trac 1.4.3 Eric Niebler Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:04:02 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/1047#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/1047#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> set to <span class="trac-author">Dave Abrahams</span> </li> </ul> Ticket Dave Abrahams Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:31:51 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/1047#comment:2 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/1047#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">new</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">closed</span> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">fixed</span> </li> </ul> Ticket