I have successfully built boost with the following options:

I notice that a directory ~/development/cots/boost is created in $BOOST_ROOT which contains lib and include sub directories. The contents of the include directory appears to be the same as what is in $BOOST_ROOT/boost and the lib contains the build output.

A directory $BOOST_ROOT/stage/lib is also created which contains the build output.

I expected the latter but not the former.

What is the --prefix option for? Should it be used when the stage option is used? And why does it appear to result in the include files being duplicated in another directory?

regards

Joe