Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 20:29:26

"Eric Niebler" <eric_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>>
>>>Actually, I think that this should be:
>>>
>>>set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
>> 
>> 
>> Done.
>> 
>> I tried to create a regression test for this, but I couldn't get the
>> test system to pass environment variable settings down to the invoked
>> bjam process.
>> 
>
>
> I think this broke my Windows build environment. I had an envar 
> HOME=C:\home, but a freshly built bjam.exe was unable to find my 
> user-config.jam until I defined HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH also. Was this 
> intentional?

No! It's supposed to check %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% first, then %HOME%,
then %BOOST_BUILD_PATH%. I'll look at this.

Just out of curiosity: why weren't HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH set in your
environment? Aren't they set up for you by Windows?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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