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Dave DeLong

12 Mar 2008 12 Mar '08

5:10 p.m.

I just ssh'd onto a Linux machine here at my school and compiled and ran it there, and the test code works fine, so I guess I have a problem with my boost install. All I did was download the tar, untar it, cd into the directory, and run "sudo make install". It ran for about four hours (I have an older Powerbook G4). Did I miss a step? Dave

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Dave DeLong

12 Mar 12 Mar

5:39 p.m.

I've just redownloaded the .tar file and untarred it and all that. I ran ./configure --with-libraries=regex Now when I'm running the makefile (with sudo), I've gotten this warning 4 times (as of right now): warning: Unable to construct ./install-unversioned Ideas? Dave On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:

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I just ssh'd onto a Linux machine here at my school and compiled and ran it there, and the test code works fine, so I guess I have a problem with my boost install. All I did was download the tar, untar it, cd into the directory, and run "sudo make install". It ran for about four hours (I have an older Powerbook G4). Did I miss a step?

Dave

Daniel Lord

5:43 p.m.

New subject: Installing Boost (was: Re: Regex problem)

You went straight to 'sudo make install' without 'configure' and 'make' first? I don't know for certain what happened in your case, but I would not recommend assuming any configuration in there after the unpack was suitable for a platform and skip that step. I usually run 'configure' to check that the 'darwin' system type is recognized an all prerequisites are found. I also run 'make' separately from 'install' so I can run any check or test phases before installing. That has saved me grief a few times with GMP (Gnu Multi-Precision library) alone. GMP will appear to compile correctly with no errors and you'd think you could just install it. Yet that build will fail significant tests. If you blindly install, you'll have a flawed installation that will give bogus calculation results. SInce I use GMP to generate prime pairs for asymmetric encryption and quantitative finance calculations, among other things, that would be very, very bad. I would caution you to always 'configure', 'make', 'test/check, and only then to 'install'. The time you save in the end chasing ghosts in your machine will be worth it. On 3/12/08, Dave DeLong wrote:

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I just ssh'd onto a Linux machine here at my school and compiled and ran it there, and the test code works fine, so I guess I have a problem with my boost install. All I did was download the tar, untar it, cd into the directory, and run "sudo make install". It ran for about four hours (I have an older Powerbook G4).

Did I miss a step?

Dave

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Dave DeLong

6:29 p.m.

New subject: Installing Boost (was: Re: Regex problem)

I followed the instructions that were found on the boost website here: http://boost.org/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#easy-build-and-inst... I did ./configure and chose all the default options (there's a reason they're the default, right?). I have no plans on using boost again in the future. It's required in a project for one of my classes. I did all the page said to do. If there's more to do, wouldn't it have said to do more? Dave On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Daniel Lord wrote:

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You went straight to 'sudo make install' without 'configure' and 'make' first? I don't know for certain what happened in your case, but I would not recommend assuming any configuration in there after the unpack was suitable for a platform and skip that step.

I usually run 'configure' to check that the 'darwin' system type is recognized an all prerequisites are found. I also run 'make' separately from 'install' so I can run any check or test phases before installing.

That has saved me grief a few times with GMP (Gnu Multi-Precision library) alone. GMP will appear to compile correctly with no errors and you'd think you could just install it. Yet that build will fail significant tests. If you blindly install, you'll have a flawed installation that will give bogus calculation results. SInce I use GMP to generate prime pairs for asymmetric encryption and quantitative finance calculations, among other things, that would be very, very bad.

I would caution you to always 'configure', 'make', 'test/check, and only then to 'install'. The time you save in the end chasing ghosts in your machine will be worth it.

Daniel Lord

7:07 p.m.

New subject: Installing Boost (was: Re: Regex problem)

Dave, sorry we had a race condition on our posts. Regex compiles for me with a straght 'configure', 'make', and 'sudo make install'. I don't use "-with-libraries=regex", I just build everything and let it install in the default /usr/local tree. However, while the dynamic libs install with the right permissions, on my systems (Mac Pro 10.5.2 and MacbookPro 10.5.2) the static libs end up 'rw' for root only so I do this afterwards to fix that: "sudo find /usr/local/lib -regex '.*\.a' -exec chmod 666 {} \;" Daniel On 3/12/08, Daniel Lord wrote:

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You went straight to 'sudo make install' without 'configure' and 'make' first? I don't know for certain what happened in your case, but I would not recommend assuming any configuration in there after the unpack was suitable for a platform and skip that step.

I usually run 'configure' to check that the 'darwin' system type is recognized an all prerequisites are found. I also run 'make' separately from 'install' so I can run any check or test phases before installing.

That has saved me grief a few times with GMP (Gnu Multi-Precision library) alone. GMP will appear to compile correctly with no errors and you'd think you could just install it. Yet that build will fail significant tests. If you blindly install, you'll have a flawed installation that will give bogus calculation results. SInce I use GMP to generate prime pairs for asymmetric encryption and quantitative finance calculations, among other things, that would be very, very bad.

I would caution you to always 'configure', 'make', 'test/check, and only then to 'install'. The time you save in the end chasing ghosts in your machine will be worth it.

On 3/12/08, Dave DeLong wrote:

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I just ssh'd onto a Linux machine here at my school and compiled and ran it there, and the test code works fine, so I guess I have a problem with my boost install. All I did was download the tar, untar it, cd into the directory, and run "sudo make install". It ran for about four hours (I have an older Powerbook G4).

Did I miss a step?

Dave

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Dave DeLong

13 Mar 13 Mar

1:37 a.m.

New subject: Installing Boost (was: Re: Regex problem)

I eventually gave up on this end (because it wasn't working), and installed it via macports.org, and everything is working fine now. =) Thanks for your help! Dave On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Daniel Lord wrote:

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Dave, sorry we had a race condition on our posts. Regex compiles for me with a straght 'configure', 'make', and 'sudo make install'. I don't use "-with-libraries=regex", I just build everything and let it install in the default /usr/local tree. However, while the dynamic libs install with the right permissions, on my systems (Mac Pro 10.5.2 and MacbookPro 10.5.2) the static libs end up 'rw' for root only so I do this afterwards to fix that:

"sudo find /usr/local/lib -regex '.*\.a' -exec chmod 666 {} \;"

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