Re: [boost] Building boost ignores GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY etc.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-29 09:51:24

"John Maddock" <jm_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> The documentation on the site indicates I can use GXX or
>> GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY to specify which g++ binary to run. However,  these
>> settings are ignored, and the g++ in my path is used instead.
>> 
>> GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/gcc-cvs/ TOOLS=gcc ~/bin/bjam
>> 
>> and other variants show this behaviour.
>
> Probably a dumb question, but I assume that you exported those variables?

I've verified that it's a bug.  It appears to have been caused by
these changes of Rene's from December:

1.57         (grafik   23-Dec-02): flags gcc GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY) ;
1.57         (grafik   23-Dec-02): flags gcc GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY) ;
1.57         (grafik   23-Dec-02): flags gcc GCC_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY) ;
1.57         (grafik   23-Dec-02): flags gcc GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY) ;

Rene, can you comment please?

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