Rodolfo Federico Gamarra wrote:

Hi all,

I've downloaded boost_1_39_0.tar.gz and proceeded as told in

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

When the last step (./bjam install) was finished, I didn't find a "lib" directory within my prefix path (as told in that page and by ./bootstrap.sh --help). After looking for a while I found the libraries in "/lib".

Which suggests you was building as root -- rarely a good idea.

Taking a look at the bootstrap.sh file I noticed

# Setup paths if test "x$EPREFIX" = x; then EPREFIX="$PREFIX" fi

if test "x$LIBDIR" = x; then LIBDIR="$EXPREFIX/lib" fi

Note that for building "LIBDIR" "EXPREFIX" is used instead of "EPREFIX", the former one does not appear anymore in the file. It seems that there was a typo.

Thanks a lot.

This is already fixed in SVN HEAD> - Volodya