[C++-sig] Re: Problem with vc++ 7

[David Abrahams]

"Mike Rovner" <mike at bindkey.com> writes:

> "David Abrahams" <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote in message
> news:un0o5jxov.fsf at boost-consulting.com...
>> FWIW I have never had any problems testing Boost extensions built with
>> VC7 against a vc6 build of Python.
>
> Probably than you have never heard about that weird problem:
>
> I'm trying too setup boost129 on WinXPpro.
>
> I have VC6, VC7 and ActivePython2.2.1 installed.
> Unpacked boost from tar.gz.
> bjam (prebuild from boost site) complains:


Yes, that's a very weird problem! I would expect to see a target name...
>
> C:\BKutil\boost_1_29_0>bjam -sTOOLS=vc7 -sBUILD=release -sPYTHON_ROOT=c:\pyt
> hon22
> don't know how to make
                        ^---------- HERE
> ...patience...
> ...patience...
> ...found 2053 targets...
> ...updating 1 target...
> ...can't find 1 target...
> ...can't make 5 targets...
> ...skipped
> <libs!python!build\boost_python.dll\vc7\release\runtime-link-dynamic>
> boost_python.CMD for lack of ...
                              ^------- AND HERE 

> And I can't understand what's wrong?

Me neither. The only thing I can guess is that you have a trailing
space on your command-line and that is somehow getting parsed as a
target name.

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