[boost] Re: Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-01 02:52:56

"Brian Ravnsgaard Riis" <brian_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:429CE628.60601_at_riis.as...
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>

[snip]

>>
>> 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.

HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH does not necessarily point to that specific 
directory.

// Johan