Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-01 11:00:50

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

I think this is backwards. If someone has gone through the trouble of 
setting a HOME environment variable, that one should be preferred over 
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. Consider that many people out there have probably 
defined HOME for the sole purpose of making bjam work (I'm one of them). 
This change will break them by causing bjam to look someplace else for 
user-config.jam.

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Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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