[boostbook] Running setup_boostbook.py
I got to the point in running setup_boostbook.py where it is looking for my user-config.jam. Even though I have my copy of user-config.jam in my Windows home directory, which for XP for me is C:\Documents and Settings\Edward Diener, the program can not find it and reports: "Looking for user-config.jam ... ERROR: Please set the BOOST_ROOT environment variable to refer to your Boost installation or copy user-config.jam into your home directory."
Edward Diener wrote:
I got to the point in running setup_boostbook.py where it is looking for my user-config.jam. Even though I have my copy of user-config.jam in my Windows home directory, which for XP for me is C:\Documents and Settings\Edward Diener, the program can not find it and reports:
"Looking for user-config.jam ... ERROR: Please set the BOOST_ROOT environment variable to refer to your Boost installation or copy user-config.jam into your home directory."
The error lies in setup_boostbook.py line 234. In Windows the home directory is not set by the "HOME" environment variable, as in Linux, but by the "HOMEPATH" environment variable. There may also be some Pythonic library way of determine the home directory for any OS without resorting to attempting to hardcode an environmental variable name. I will look for the latter and report it here if I find it.
At 9:35 PM -0400 7/6/07, Edward Diener wrote:
There may also be some Pythonic library way of determine the home directory for any OS without resorting to attempting to hardcode an environmental variable name. I will look for the latter and report it here if I find it.
os.path.expanduser("~")
Kim Barrett wrote:
At 9:35 PM -0400 7/6/07, Edward Diener wrote:
There may also be some Pythonic library way of determine the home directory for any OS without resorting to attempting to hardcode an environmental variable name. I will look for the latter and report it here if I find it.
os.path.expanduser("~")
Yes, but it erroneously looks for the HOME environment variable first, before looking for the HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH combination. The latter is always correct on Windows. Looking for HOME first is just plain wrong, especially as HOME is set for an MSYS ( MingW **ix emulation ) installation on Windows to point to the MSYS home directory. I brought this up on the comp.lang.python forum yesterday but no one responded there yet.
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