On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:32 AM, doug livesey
Which docs? Did you try the Getting Started Guide? Yes -- on the page you link to, it says "If you're using a compiler other than your system's default, you'll need to use Boost.Build to create binaries." I'm using clang (because that's the most up-to-date C++ compiler I've been able to install on my machine), so I need to build the binaries, I guess?
Building the Boost.Build binaries with the default system compiler should be fine. What you want to do is to invoke the actual building with a different toolset. This is what you want to do: $ cd boost_1_47_0 $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/path/to/your/boost/installation $ ./b2 toolset=clang install these set of commands will build the b2 with gcc, but the libraries itself with clang. HTH, Thomas