Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-01 02:25:34

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:uhdgi971q.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>

[snip]

>> No! It's supposed to check %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% first, then %HOME%,
>> then %BOOST_BUILD_PATH%. I'll look at this.
>
> Should be fixed now.
>
>> Just out of curiosity: why weren't HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH set in your
>> environment? Aren't they set up for you by Windows?
>
> Still curious, though.

Me too. I've tried googling as well as searching the MS Knowledge Base but 
couldn't find any reference to a similar problem. I'll try the MS 
newsgroups.

FWIW, I can reproduce the problem on both of my XP SP2 machines.

// Johan