Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-05 14:06:20

Andrey Melnikov <melnikov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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]
>>>
>>>
>>>>>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.

That is a completely separate issue.  The question is, where will
user-config.jam be looked for?  It is a BBv2 question, and environment
variables are actually irrelevant.  The set command above is just the
way of describing where BBv2 should look for it on Windows systems.

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

You can rest assured that the ability to avoid setting environment
variables has been a design goal of Boost.Build since version 1 was
begun.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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