Re: [Boost-users] Boost Install fails?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Dreamcat4 wrote:

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

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AMDG

On 04/12/2011 07:45 AM, Dreamcat4 wrote:

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As a normal, regular user boost install fails with the following error(s):

janitors-Mac-mini:boost_1_46_1 id$ ./bootstrap.sh --show-libraries -n Building Boost.Jam with toolset darwin...

Failed to build Boost.Jam Consult 'bootstrap.log' for more details

bootstrap.log: https://gist.github.com/915620

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[MKDIR] [.bin_vms]

Has anyone seen anything like this? What could be the possible issue here? Is it really normal to compile everything as root?!!?

Just a guess, do you have an environment variable called VMS?

That was a pretty good guess!

janitors-Mac-mini:src id$ env | grep VMS VMS=/Volumes/My Passport/janitors mac mini/WD250 Media/WD250 Virtual Machines

Its the location where I put all my Virtual Machines.

Not knowing how things work, but perhaps Boost/Jam shouldn't really be listening out for that variable? I mean since "VMS" pretty generic-sounding and only 3 letters. Such variables could be made more unique with a prefix eg BOOST_VMS and so on.

Anyway thank you Steven - I shall have another go now.

And surprise surprise it works... janitors-Mac-mini:boost_1_46_1 id$ export VMS= janitors-Mac-mini:boost_1_46_1 id$ ./bootstrap.sh --show-libraries -n Building Boost.Jam with toolset darwin... tools/build/v2/engine/src/bin.macosxx86_64/bjam The following Boost libraries have portions that require a separate build and installation step. Any library not listed here can be used by including the headers only. The Boost libraries requiring separate building and installation are: The following libraries require building: - program_options janitors-Mac-mini:boost_1_46_1 id$ echo $? 0

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