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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-01 14:32:06


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

> David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> You really think it's likely that they've set up HOME and yet have
>> installed a user-config.jam that they don't want bjam to use in
>> %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%? I don't.
>>
>
> Haha, ok. You're right. But as it so happens, this was exactly the case
> on my machine. I struggled to get bjam working the first time, and in
> the process, I scattered user-config.jam all over the place. I ended up
> with one in %HOME% and a turd user-config.jam in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
> (which I just deleted to be safe).

Well, I'll take you to be an outlier. Backward compatibility is less
important at this point in BBv2 than just getting things right.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
 

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