Re: [Boost-users] Problems Building Boost 1.33.1 on Ubuntu 5.10 x86 From Scratch

From: Fred Campaigne (fcampaigne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-27 18:49:55

Steve, have you posted to the Ubuntu people.
cheers fred

kfjethro wrote:

>I know that there are probably packages available for this platform
>but for several reasons I need to build Boost 1.33.1 from scratch.
>
>I have no problems with compiliing from scratch on Ubuntu 6.06.
>
>After unpacking the source files and placing the precompiled bjam
>executable in the boost source directory, I run the following:
>
>cd ./boost_1_33_1
>./bjam -sTOOLS=gcc –-prefix=/usr/local/boost-1.33.1 install
>
>My /usr/local/boost-1.33.1 is owned by me and writeable.
>
>Any suggestions ? Thanks.
>
>The truncated bjam output is :
>
>Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
>Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
>(and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>*** If you don't need Boost.Python, you can ignore this section  ***
>*** pass --without-python to suppress this message in the future ***
>
>skipping Boost.Python library build due to missing or incorrect configuration
>
>couldn't find Python.h in "/usr/include/python2.4"
>
>You can configure the location of your python installation by setting:
>PYTHON_VERSION - The 2-part python Major.Minor version number (e.g.
>                 "2.2", NOT "2.2.1")  - currently "2.4"
>
>PYTHON_ROOT    - currently "/usr"
>
>The following are automatically configured from PYTHON_ROOT if not
>otherwise set:
>
>    PYTHON_LIB_PATH       - path to Python library object; currently
>                            "/usr/lib/python2.4/config"
>    PYTHON_INCLUDES       - path to Python #include directories; currently
>                            "/usr/include/python2.4"
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jamfile:278: in load-jamfiles
>*** argument error
>* rule stage ( name : sources + : requirements * : local-build * )
>* called with: (  :
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/cwchar
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/csignal
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/climits
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/cfloat
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/b
>
><<<< middle truncated >>>>>>
>
>r_traits.hpp /home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/bucket_sorter.hpp
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/fibonacci_heap.hpp
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/iterator_tests.hpp
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/detail/int_iterator.hpp
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/detail/property.hpp
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/detail/disjoint_sets.hpp :
><locate>/usr/local <tree-subdirs>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1
><target>install : )
>* missing argument name
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/v1/boost-base.jam:2330:see
>definition of rule 'stage' being called
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/v1/bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build
>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost-build.jam:16: in module scope
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