Re: [Boost-build] Relative paths in user-config.jam

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Relative paths in user-config.jam
From: Jürgen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-09 04:31:15

Hi Michael !

An'n Freitag 09 Januar 2009 hett Michael Marcin schreven:
> I have a subversion repository with my project code and qbk files and
> the binaries for quickbook and all its dependencies along with bjam and
> boost build v2 and boost book. I want to check in user-config.jam so
> that anyone can check out the project to any directory and build the
> docs by running a simple batch file.
>
> I made the batch file set HOME to ../../../ (which is where
> user-config.jam happens to live relative to the batch file) and bjam
> picks up the user-config which is a good start.

I think that adjusting HOME is no good idea (tm).
You are using a wrapper script, so you could try and run 
bjam --user-config=../../../.. user config jam.

Else I think I need a simple test case to play with.

Yours,

Jürgen 

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