Re: [Boost-testing] bjam no longer detects user-config.jam in the current working directory

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-15 18:26:46

Boris Gubenko wrote:
> For the reasons having nothing to do with Boost (and having everything
> to do with reconfiguring HP-UX machines in the lab), I was not running
> Boost HEAD (trunk) tests since Sun, 5 Aug 2007.
> 
> Now when I restarted the tests, I've discovered that bjam no longer detects
> user-config.jam in the current working directory. Copying user-config.jam
> to a home directory solves this problem, so, it is not a big deal for me.
> 
> Still, is this change in bjam intentional?

Yes, it's intentional <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/38618> 
& <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1128>.

> Is there some environment variable which can be set to point to
> user-config.jam ?

There was mention of providing a USER_CONFIG env var, but I think that 
was rejected.

> Note that specifying
> 
>   --bjam-options="--user-config=$BOOST_BUILD_PATH/user-config.jam"

Yea, that should work.

> when invoking regression.py does not work because, as far as I can tell, when
> building process_jam_log, regression.py does not pass bjam-options to bjam.

I guess regression.py should be fixed :-\

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