Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 11:40:43

On May 22, 2007, at 10:53 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
> FWIW, it was a design goal of Boost.Build v2 to get away from builds
> that depend on environment variables.

We combined configuration and build steps into one pass, somewhat  
confusing the issue. When there are separate "configure" and "build"  
steps, it makes sense for the "configure" step to obey environment  
variables whereas the "build" step would not.

        - Doug