[btree] build advice needed
Dear Beman & others, At the risk of appearing ignorant and being told the RTM, can someone please help me to build btree? I am attempting to do this on a smallish ARM Linux box where building the whole of Boost is impractical (but which should otherwise be very similar to an x86 Linux system). So far: # apt-get install g++ (etc) # apt-get install boost-build # apt-get install bjam # apt-get install git $ git clone git://github.com/Beman/Boost-Btree btree $ cd btree/libs/btree/build $ bjam error: Could not find parent for project at '.' error: Did not find Jamfile or project-root.jam in any parent directory. As it says, there is no project-root.jam or Jamfile in any parent; this makes me think that perhaps it is expecting this to be part of a larger Boost tree. Or, maybe I just don't know the right incantations. What's the easiest way to go about this? If I do need to get other Boost source code, if there some git magic that will do it for me? Thanks, Phil.
On Sunday 03 October 2010 11:43:14 Vladimir Prus wrote:
This is a problem I run into every time someone proposes a library for boost (log, process, etc.). Our sysadmin builds boost, say 1.43, and installs it into a known location, say /boost-1.43, but does not give us access to the build tree. Now, if I wish to build boost.log against the installed version of boost, how do I go about it? Here's what I try: 1. Get boost 1.43 sources and unpack it. 2. Get boost.log sources and unpack it inside the boost tree. 3. ??? At step 3, I would like to use the bjam, other executables and the libraries already built and installed by our sysadmin. However, even if I try --with-log and no other command line options, bjam insists on building the libraries on which boost.log depends. How can I teach bjam or the build process that certain libraries are already built and installed? Regards, Ravi
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