I followed the instructions that were found on the boost website here: http://boost.org/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#easy-build-and-inst... I did ./configure and chose all the default options (there's a reason they're the default, right?). I have no plans on using boost again in the future. It's required in a project for one of my classes. I did all the page said to do. If there's more to do, wouldn't it have said to do more? Dave On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Daniel Lord <daniel@brightfire.com> wrote:
You went straight to 'sudo make install' without 'configure' and 'make' first? I don't know for certain what happened in your case, but I would not recommend assuming any configuration in there after the unpack was suitable for a platform and skip that step.
I usually run 'configure' to check that the 'darwin' system type is recognized an all prerequisites are found. I also run 'make' separately from 'install' so I can run any check or test phases before installing.
That has saved me grief a few times with GMP (Gnu Multi-Precision library) alone. GMP will appear to compile correctly with no errors and you'd think you could just install it. Yet that build will fail significant tests. If you blindly install, you'll have a flawed installation that will give bogus calculation results. SInce I use GMP to generate prime pairs for asymmetric encryption and quantitative finance calculations, among other things, that would be very, very bad.
I would caution you to always 'configure', 'make', 'test/check, and only then to 'install'. The time you save in the end chasing ghosts in your machine will be worth it.