Re: [jamboost] Pitfall -- environment variables

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-27 14:49:03

On 2002-03-27 at 02:17 PM, hadsell_at_[hidden] (Richard Hadsell) wrote:

>In trying to figure out why I was having problems builing Jam on my Irix
system, I 
>discovered a
>pitfall that was causing them. I have OS set to IRIX2 (don't bother asking
why) in my 
>environment,
>so it was overriding what Jam would like to see -- IRIX. The same was
actually 
>occurring on my
>Tru64 system, where I had OS = DIGITAL instead of OSF, but the defaults were
o.k. there.

Unfortunately, that's what I would consider a Jam bug. The problem isn't that
Jam relies on the environment variables getting set to specific values. The
problem is that it thunks all the environment variables into the Jam variables
AFTER setting up it's own values for those. Jam is currently assuming you
either don't have those in your environment, or are overriding them for
reasons of changing what the OS Jam thinks, is.

Renaming those variables to something like JAMOS is not backward compatible.
But changing the order of setting might be. 

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