Eric Niebler wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
"Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson@gmail.com> writes:
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.
I think this broke my Windows build environment. I had an envar HOME=C:\home, but a freshly built bjam.exe was unable to find my user-config.jam until I defined HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH also. Was this intentional?
What Windows? Without further ado in a dos-prompt on WinXP: C:>set home HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Brian Riis Windows defines these by itself. (At least it should). Of course it'll not point into your C:\home directory, but using it should be "portable" across Windows versions *without* setting any environment variables. Your user-config.jam will have to go into C:\Documents and Settings\<your login>\, of course. -- /Brian Riis