Subject: Re: Re: Building boost on the RC_1_28_0 branch
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.build
Date: 2002-05-14 16:44:40 GMT (7 years, 7 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours and 30 minutes ago)
"Markus Schöpflin" <markus.schoepflin <at> ginit-technology.com> wrote in message news:3CE12837.DA6AB7A1 <at> ginit-technology.com... > David Abrahams wrote: > > > > No need. I understand what the problem is, though I'm not sure why it is > > that way: the toolset checks for "MSVCDir" because that's what my > > VCVARS32.BAT sets, but your VCVARS32.BAT is setting "MSVCDIR". I've fixed > > the toolset so it looks for either one. For the next boost release we > > Aha. Looks like a problem with jam itself, as on the WIN32 platform, > environment variables are NOT case sesitive. They are and they aren't. If you set them with case, they come back with case. Jam code can't exactly "check environment variables"; they just get imported into (case-senstive) Jam variables, which makes this problem a little knotty. -Dave