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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-06 09:21:49


Wieger Wesselink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The documentation of BBv2 says that user-config.jam is searched
> for in the directories $HOME and $BOOST_BUILD_PATH. On Windows 2000
> this works fine with $HOME. However, with $BOOST_BUILD_PATH it
> doesn't work for me. Then the default version of user-config.jam is
> loaded instead of the one located in $BOOST_BUILD_PATH. I'm not sure
> if this is due to a bug, or my misunderstanding of the documentation.
>
> I have the following configuration:
> BOOST_BUILD_PATH=d:\cpp
>
> d:\cpp\boost-build.jam:
> boost-build boost/tools/build/v2 ;

This places "boost/tools/build/v2" in the from of BOOST_BUILD_PATH, so
user-config.jam found there is used. Looks like the docs are a bit unclear...

HTH,
Volodya

 


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