Re: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Brian Ravnsgaard Riis (brian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 17:33:12

Eric Niebler wrote:
> 
> 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?

What Windows? Without further ado in a dos-prompt on WinXP:

C:>set home
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Brian Riis

Windows defines these by itself. (At least it should). Of course it'll 
not point into your C:\home directory, but using it should be "portable" 
across Windows versions *without* setting any environment variables. 
Your user-config.jam will have to go into C:\Documents and 
Settings\<your login>\, of course.

-- 
  /Brian Riis