[C++-sig] 2 Problems in build

[David Abrahams]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David LeBlanc" <whisper at oz.net>


> Jam does not seem to find the environment variables I set in the console
> where I was trying to build boost.

That's a misdiagnosis of whatever problem you are having.

> I found (as I recall finding before) that
> I have to hand edit the python.jam and msvc-tools.jam files to point to
the
> actual location(s) of vc and python root directories before jam will do
it's
> thing.

I can't give you any support with building if you do it that way, though.

> I guess I did remember enough, since I got the debug version built and
the
> release version is building as I type. I'm curious to know what the fuss
> is/was about mpl, since I don't see anything built with that name... ?

What fuss?