From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-01 15:53:49
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2008 00:41:45 Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > PowerShell from Microsoft have higher limits, I wonder if it is
> > possible to configure boost.build to use powershell instead
> > of cmd.exe for execute commands.
> > I'm having problems with compile.rc giving actions too long errors
> > because it doesn't have the @ option as does
> > the link and cl commands.
>
> Maybe,
>
> bjam -sJAMSHELL=<something> <other options will work>
It worked! After modifying execnt.cpp to higher the limit it worked flawlessly.
Or at least it seemed. :)
That is to me a sufficient workaround for the line limit.
> Please see Boost.Jam docs for explanation what format JAMSHELL should
> have.
>
> - Volodya
Thanks,
-- Felipe Magno de Almeida