Re: [Boost-users] Building rc_1_34_0 (w/python)

on Thu Mar 29 2007, "Kelly Burkhart" wrote:

On 3/28/07, David Abrahams wrote: <snip>

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The instructions for building Boost.Python with BBv2 are still being written. Thanks for your patience.

David,

Thanks for the reply, the primary problem was that I did not have user-config.jam in my home directory. I was in some sense wearing blinders. After years of building and installing like this:

./configure make (become root) make install

It didn't occur to me that I needed a configuration file in some directory other than where I issued the bjam command. This could have been caused by my reluctance to dig through the substantial boost build documentation to use the tool one time. Or my thick skull.

We do have a configure script in the Boost root directory, if you're more comfortable with that.

Is there some file that bjam looks for in the source directory in which I could have put the contents of user-config.jam? Even with the knowledge that HOME is the proper location for the file, it is still not nice in this scenario:

- download boost - build bjam - create user-config.jam in home directory - bjam ... stage - check that build succeeded - become root - copy the same user-config.jam to root's home directory - bjam ... install - clean up user-config.jam files so that they don't surprise me 2 years from now when I try to remember this process to build 1.35.

Yep, agreed. I would use sudo. But you can set BOOST_BIULD_PATH in your environment to point to the directory where your user-config.jam resides.

Hope my experience assists you in improving the build documentation.

I hate to say this, but that's someone else's job... (even if I might end up being forced to do it). The Getting Started Guide is enough of a challenge for me. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com Don't Miss BoostCon 2007! ==> http://www.boostcon.com