I try again. I compile the bcp with mingw and it pass, but compiling with vc7.1 it fail. The error is: licence_info.cpp(18) : error C2001: newline in constant CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\bin\VCVARS32.BAT" >nul "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\bin\cl" /Zm800 -nologo /EHsc -c -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -DBOOST_REGEX_NO_LIB=1 /Ogity /O2 /Gs /Ob2 /EHsc /GR /MD /Op /wd4675 /Zc:forScope Zc:wchar_t -I"..\..\bin\boost\tools\bcp" -I"C:\opt\boost" -Fo"..\..\bin \boost\tools\bcp\bcp.exe\vc-7_1\release\threading-multi\licence_info.obj" - Tp"licence_info.cpp" ...failed vc-C++ ..\..\bin\boost\tools\bcp\bcp.exe\vc-7_1\release\threading-multi\licence_inf o.obj... I think it is not the vc7.1's fault. I refer to the MSDN and the book of "the C++ programming language" The standard c++ do not accept the grammar printf("Hello, // error world"); printf("Hello,\n // error world"); only accept the grammar printf("Hello,\ // OK world"); printf("Hello," // OK " world"); I think what the code want to do is concatenating all the string literal. May I am wrong since I find all the other string literal encircling with quatation("") but the line 18 is not. In any cases it can not works with vc7.1. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Maddock" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] There is a error in the file licence_info.cppundertools\bcp

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The original line 18 is (pay attention the correspond the parentheses) "Copyright|\\(c\\)|? I compile bcp with vc71 toolset and fails. I change this line with "Copyright|\\(c\\)|?" It's OK.

I also check the code in the CVS, This error is not corrected.

Builds OK for me, the actual line is not as you quote it's:

"Copyright|\\(c\\)|?"

Note the copyright symbol and not a ?.

I wonder is this a multi-byte string issue?

John.

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The character code for the last character before the closing quote is 0xA9, which might be the start of some composite character in the encoding you use locally, swallowing the following closing double quote.

Anyway, I think the code in question is at least very bad style because is uses a non-ASCII character, which gives you all sort of portability problems. Maybe it should be replaced with "Copyright|\\(c\\)|\xA9".

I think that's right, thanks for letting me know what the character code is, saves me looking it up :-) And this reminds me: we really should have regression tests for the tools integrated into the test framefwork, it would have picked this up earlier. Thanks, John.