[boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 16:12:43

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>>
>>Actually, I think that this should be:
>>
>>set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
> 
> 
> Done.
> 
> I tried to create a regression test for this, but I couldn't get the
> test system to pass environment variable settings down to the invoked
> bjam process.
> 

I think this broke my Windows build environment. I had an envar 
HOME=C:\home, but a freshly built bjam.exe was unable to find my 
user-config.jam until I defined HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH also. Was this 
intentional?

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Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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