Hello, I downloaded boost today so regard me as a newbie. Boost seems great, but the documentation doesn't mention how I should install boost on my system (redhat 9), and how to link against the built libraries. Sure I can include it in every project (though it's huge!), and make the makefiles link into strange locations such as libs/test/build/bin/libboost_unit_test_framework.a/gcc/debug/runtime-link-static/threading-single/libboost_unit_test_framework.a Is there an easier way? Why aren't packages like boost-[devel-]VERSION.PLATFORM.rpm made? Why aren't all built libraries put in the same directory, with a simple path name? Why isn't the thread library built statically? Is putting a "lib" section with BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_STATIC=1 in the Jamfile a legal fix? (seems to work) Also... I think boost should have a network library. Can anyone recommend a platform-independent network library? I'm thankful for any answer... -- Cheers, Tom Weber http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~np98towe/