Re: [jamboost] Building b/jam...

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-06 14:11:27

Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:

> >Also, I see that paths for toolsets are hardcoded. Can we do better?
> >Will building work if I have "bcc32" in path, but it's installed in
> nonstandard
> >location. (Well I can check this at home, but later).
> 
> I did what I knew how to do. Ideally on Windows doing things like reading
> the registry would be the ticket. But I don't know how to do that from a
> script. But yes we can do better, even if it's just testing various common
> install locations, as the MSVC check does.

Well, checking the PATH should be fairly easy, since it gets imported
into the global module and we have the GLOB rule.

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David Abrahams
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