On Friday 11 July 2008, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

bjam may be the best thing since sliced bread (some of the summaries of capabilities certainly make it sound interesting / valuable), but it's not a tool I know anything about. In an ordinary makefile, I could quickly substitute the right tools (gcc4 instead of gcc, g++4 instead of g++) and be on my way (without having to bother you). But I don't immediately see how to approach that with bjam. I had hopes it would auto-detect gcc4 since I found that string in a couple of the files in hopeful-looking contexts, but that has not happened.

So -- how do I build Boost 1.35.0 on my Linux system (Centos 4.6) using a GCC 4 installed as /usr/bin/gcc4 on my system?

(We're using to_string() in date-time, among others, so I really do have to compile the library.)

we use a nonstandard gcc, too here's how to do it. You need to create/edit user-config.jam. We decided to automatically create it. Here's the part where we configure the compiler: cat >user-config.jam <<@@END@@ # Boost.Build Configuration # Automatically generated by ${scriptname} # Compiler configuration using gcc : : ${GCC_BASEDIR}/g++-${GCCVERSION} : <compileflags>${flag} <compileflags>-I${buildprefix}/include <compi leflags>-L${buildprefix}/lib <linkflags>${flag} <linkflags>-L${buildprefix}/lib ; @@END@@ Lothar