Re: [Boost-build] user-config.jam permanent location

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] user-config.jam permanent location
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-14 01:43:21

On Saturday 14 August 2010 06:01:58 Edward Diener wrote:

> On 8/13/2010 2:39 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Friday 13 August 2010 07:16:21 Edward Diener wrote:
> >
> >> When I open any user-config.jam I see:
> >>
> >> "#   This file is used to configure your Boost.Build installation. You
> >> can modify
> >> # this file in place, or you can place it in a permanent location so that it
> >> # does not get overwritten should you get a new version of Boost.Build. See:
> >> #
> >> #
> >> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.reference.init
> >> #
> >> # for documentation about possible permanent locations."
> >>
> >> When one goes to
> >> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.reference.init
> >> there is no information there about a permanent location for
> >> user-config.jam.
> >
> > I have updated the URL to:
> >
> > 	http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/overview/configuration.html
> >
> > where a table of locations of config files is present.
> 
> Does not the search order for user-config.jam start with the boost build 
> directory ?

No. It starts with $HOME, because if it started with something else, user-config.jam
placed in $HOME would be ignored.

> In the page above the search order for user-config.jam does 
> not include that at all.

That is the $BOOST_BUILD_PATH in the table.

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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