FYI, this did the trick. Thanks for your help. -Daniel boost-users-request@lists.boost.org wrote:

Here is what I did to install:

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First go to tools/build/jam_src and build jam: sh build.sh

Then cd back to the boost root dir, and install: tools/build/jam_src/bin.linuxx86/bjam --sTOOLS=gcc --prefix=~/local/linux install

Two things: a) It should be -sTOOLS=gcc but since the default is gcc on Linux anyway this doesn't really affect the results. b) "~/local/linux" is a shell construct which will only gets expanded by the shell if it's by itself as an argument. You heed to use $HOME/local/linux instead.