[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #1128: boost-buil rule does not overrule BOOST_BUILD_PATH

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #1128: boost-buil rule does not overrule BOOST_BUILD_PATH
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-30 07:56:24

#1128: boost-buil rule does not overrule BOOST_BUILD_PATH
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 Reporter:  roland.schwarz_at_[hidden]  |       Owner:  grafik 
     Type:  Bugs                      |      Status:  new    
Milestone:  Boost.Jam 3.1.15          |   Component:  bjam   
  Version:  Boost.Jam 3.1.14          |    Severity:  Problem
 Keywords:  BOOST_BUILD_PATH          |  
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 When a BOOST_BUILD_PATH is set, or on Linux when a boost-build.jam is
 present in /usr/share/boost-build, the build system is always loaded from
 there.
 Even a boost-build.jam which sets a different path does not overule this
 behaviour.
 This is problematic, since e.g. this will prevent to build the boost
 libraries when the user has set an out of date default boost-build. E.g. I
 have been trapped into this because I installed the debian boost-build
 package.
 The behaviour has been explicitely changed to the current behaviour, but I
 have no idea why.
 The file where this can be changed is the Jambase file in the bjam
 sources.
 If this behaviour will stay the way it is, could someone please give a
 clear rationale?

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Ticket URL: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1128>
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