Andrey Melnikov <melnikov@simplexsoft.com> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
"Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson@gmail.com> writes:
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:upsvdfl14.fsf@boost-consulting.com...
"Arkadiy Vertleyb" <vertleyb@hotmail.com> writes:
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3) What is my $HOME directory? The boost-sandbox\libs\typeof\doc?
Sorry, that was a Unix-ism. Just
set HOME=%HOMEPATH%
Actually, I think that this should be:
set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
Done.
I tried to create a regression test for this, but I couldn't get the test system to pass environment variable settings down to the invoked bjam process.
Do we really need these environment vars? I just put boost-build.jam (as documentation suggests) into my \projects folder, and everything below \project detects boost.build perfectly.
That is a completely separate issue. The question is, where will user-config.jam be looked for? It is a BBv2 question, and environment variables are actually irrelevant. The set command above is just the way of describing where BBv2 should look for it on Windows systems.
I really hate making system-wide changes, like setting environment variables globally.
You can rest assured that the ability to avoid setting environment variables has been a design goal of Boost.Build since version 1 was begun. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com