Re: [Boost-users] Cannot build Boost

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Ondřej Majerech wrote:

On 22 November 2010 08:35, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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What documentation are you looking at? The getting started guide recommends that you use:

       ./bootstrap.sh        ./bjam

to build boost. Have you seen that recommendation? If no, do you have any suggestions how to make it more visible? If yes, why have you decided not to follow it?

This is what I'm looking at: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html .

Yes, I have seen that recommendation. However, it also says, "If you're using a compiler other than your system's default, you'll need to use Boost.Build to create binaries." in section 5.2. As using a compiler other than my system's default is exactly my case, I understood it that I should use instructions in section 5.2 instead of those in 5.1. Did I misunderstand this part?

I'm having the exact same problem as Ondra: boost 1.45 does not seem to build the same way as boost 1.44 if you need to use a custom compiler or non-standard build variant, and the docs do not describe the new way of doing things. So: how do you build boost 1.45 with 1) a custom compiler and 2) non-standard build variants. In my case, I'm using a local build of GCC that is not in $PATH, and I need single-threaded, static libraries. Thanks! Greg