Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-05 11:49:54

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
>>news:upsvdfl14.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
>>
>>>"Arkadiy Vertleyb" <vertleyb_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>
>>[snip]
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>>
>>>>3) What is my $HOME directory?  The boost-sandbox\libs\typeof\doc?
>>>
>>>Sorry, that was a Unix-ism.  Just
>>>
>>>      set HOME=%HOMEPATH%
>>
>>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.
> 
Do we really need these environment vars? I just put boost-build.jam (as 
documentation suggests) into my \projects folder, and everything below 
\project detects boost.build perfectly.

I really hate making system-wide changes, like setting environment 
variables globally.

Andrey