From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 16:12:43
David Abrahams wrote:
> "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> 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?
-- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com