Re: [Boost-users] Boost under Linux, invoking bootstrap

On 05/05/2013 07:44 AM, Daniel James wrote:

On 5 May 2013 12:10, Edward Diener wrote:

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./bootstrap.sh --prefix=~/bin

It completes succesfully but nothing is put in my home bin subdirectory. Did I do something wrong ?

It doesn't understand tilde paths, and will have placed in a directory called "~". You need to use the full path. Btw. I think it will place the executable at 'bin/bin', and a lot of other stuff at 'bin/share', which might not be what you want.

Thanks ! I found that out also. Because I am mostly a Windows programmer I thought that the bash shell replaces '~' with the user's home directory but that's obviously wrong. I am still learning about the bash shell and still making mistakes.