id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 9484 b2 headers thinks AFS filesystem supports cross-directory hardlinks Lars Viklund Vladimir Prus "The AFS filesystem (as in OpenAFS) has some interesting quirks. Among those is that it only allows hardlinks inside the same directory. I suggest that the hardlink test should be augmented to test whether hardlinks between entries of different directories is supported. './b2 headers' output head: ====8<==== Performing configuration checks - symlinks supported : yes - hardlinks supported : yes ...found 970 targets... ...updating 435 targets... mklink-or-dir boost mklink-or-dir boost/accumulators mklink-or-dir boost/algorithm link.hardlink boost/array.hpp ln: failed to create hard link `boost/array.hpp' => `libs/array/include/boost/array.hpp': Invalid cross-device link ln -f ""libs/array/include/boost/array.hpp"" ""boost/array.hpp"" ...failed link.hardlink boost/array.hpp... link.hardlink boost/asio.hpp ln: failed to create hard link `boost/asio.hpp' => `libs/asio/include/boost/asio.hpp': Invalid cross-device link ln -f ""libs/asio/include/boost/asio.hpp"" ""boost/asio.hpp"" ...failed link.hardlink boost/asio.hpp... ====8<====" Bugs closed To Be Determined build Boost Development Trunk Problem fixed