Re: Building boost on the RC_1_28_0 branch

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-14 10:07:35

David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> No need. I understand what the problem is, though I'm not sure why it is
> that way: the toolset checks for "MSVCDir" because that's what my
> VCVARS32.BAT sets, but your VCVARS32.BAT is setting "MSVCDIR". I've fixed
> the toolset so it looks for either one. For the next boost release we

Aha. Looks like a problem with jam itself, as on the WIN32 platform,
environment variables are NOT case sesitive.

> probably ought to set up a built-in global variable called ENVIRONMENT or
> something which contains the names of all environment variables as they are
> set.

Now it's compiling smoothly. I will report back if I find anything else.

Markus