On May 22, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Eric Lin wrote:
Dear Steven or any boost programers/users:
I tried ./bootstrap.sh ./bjam ./bjam install
in my /boost_1_46_1/ directory which is auto extracted by my ubuntu linux after download
but I got the following build/compile errors:(these are just small portion of all errors)(c++ compiler is g++ of gnu on intel) ------------------------------ cp "bin.v2/libs/math/build/gcc-4.4.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_math_c99f.a" "/usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99f.a"
...failed common.copy /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99f.a... common.copy /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99l.a cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99l.a': Permission denied
Looks like you'll need to do sudo ./bjam install in order to get the permissions to install there. or use ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix to install somewhere else.