Despite having used Boost for quite while I'm doing my first install of Boost on a Linux box and don't seem to be getting it right! This should be straight forward, using all the defaults.
Specifically this is Fedora 11 (64-bit), with gcc 4.4.1 and Boost 1.42, and I don't have write permission for /usr/local, so...
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/home/rjones/thirdparty/boost/boost_1_42_0 .... ./bjam install 2>&1 | tee bjam.log
There's A LOT of noise, lots of warnings, some errors, and finally
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libboost_wave.a': Permission denied
cp "bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_wave.a" "/usr/local/lib/libboost_wave.a"
...failed common.copy /usr/local/lib/libboost_wave.a... ...failed updating 98 targets... ...skipped 7732 targets... ...updated 674 targets...
I've attached the logfile begin and end (it's huge!). Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong.
without reading your full log file, do you have write permissions on /usr/local (maybe /usr/local mounted ro)? I guess, you have sudo on Fedora, try on install time sudo ./bjam install ..... Regards, Olaf