Re: Using Environment Variables in Boost.BuildJamRoot file

Lawrence Spector wrote:
> Now, if I want
> to put it in site-config.jam as you suggested, what
other steps are
> there so that the Jamroot file can use the contents of
> site-config.jam.  I tried putting the import os; and
local BOOST_ROOT
> = [ os.environ BOOST_ROOT ] ; into the site-config
file, but my
> Jamroot file was not able to see the variables.  What I
gathered from
> reading is that all jam files have their own
namespaces.  How do you
> "export" something into the global namespace
then?

You can:

import os;
path-constant BOOST_ROOT : [ os.environ BOOST_ROOT ] ;

I think.

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Excellent.  That worked great!  Thanks for the tip.

-Lawrence

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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Using Environment Variables in
Boost.BuildJamRoot file

Lawrence Spector wrote:
> Now, if I want
> to put it in site-config.jam as you suggested, what
other steps are
> there so that the Jamroot file can use the contents of
> site-config.jam.  I tried putting the import os; and
local BOOST_ROOT
> = [ os.environ BOOST_ROOT ] ; into the site-config
file, but my
> Jamroot file was not able to see the variables.  What I
gathered from
> reading is that all jam files have their own
namespaces.  How do you
> "export" something into the global namespace
then?

You can:

import os;
path-constant BOOST_ROOT : [ os.environ BOOST_ROOT ] ;

I think.

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