Re: [Boost-build] user-config.jam permanent location

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] user-config.jam permanent location
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-13 22:01:58

On 8/13/2010 2:39 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2010 07:16:21 Edward Diener wrote:
>
>> When I open any user-config.jam I see:
>>
>> "#   This file is used to configure your Boost.Build installation. You
>> can modify
>> # this file in place, or you can place it in a permanent location so that it
>> # does not get overwritten should you get a new version of Boost.Build. See:
>> #
>> #
>> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.reference.init
>> #
>> # for documentation about possible permanent locations."
>>
>> When one goes to
>> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.reference.init
>> there is no information there about a permanent location for
>> user-config.jam.
>
> I have updated the URL to:
>
> 	http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/overview/configuration.html
>
> where a table of locations of config files is present.

Does not the search order for user-config.jam start with the boost build 
directory ? In the page above the search order for user-config.jam does 
not include that at all.