Re: [jamboost] newbie has problems with JAMBASE / BOOST_ROOT / BOOST_BUILD_PATH

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-08 03:48:43

Peter Steiner wrote:

> >> Then I tried the following settings:
> >>
> >> /1/ set BOOST_ROOT=c:\l\jam
> >> /2/ set BOOST_BUILD_PATH=c:\l\jam\tools\build
> >> /3/ set BOOST_BUILD_PATH=c:\l\jam\tools\build\new
> >> /4/ set JAMBASE=c:\l\jam\tools\build\new\build-system.jam
> >> /5/ set JAMBASE=c:\l\jam\tools\build\build-base.jam
> >> /6/ set JAMBASE=c:\l\jam\tools\build (with build-base.jam copied to
> >> jambase.jam)
> > I don't remember that 4-6 ever worked.
>
> That's a pity. What would then be the best approach to get something
> similar?
>
> I'd like to have as few environment variables as possible and be able to
> each of them from the command line.

Can you explain what are trying to achive? Do you want to specify location of 
build system? Or to run jam on arbitrary file?

- Volodya