Yes, the method works. I have just install 1.42.0 on Visual Studio 2008 professional following instructions of the link:
http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/414

Cheers !
Robert

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj@gmail.com> wrote:
AMDG


Boost lzw wrote:
I came across the following link on how to build Boost With Visual Studio:
http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/414

I have VS2008 professional on Windows XP professional with boost 1.39.0
installed, really  wanted to replace it with 1.42.0. My hard disk now has
about 16 GB left.  Is there anybody who followed the above link to have
successfully installed boost 1.42.0 in an environment like mine (i.e., is
the method correct)? What should I do with the /boost directory of about
1.8GB when boost 1.39.0 was built, simply deleting it?
 

Assuming that you don't need it any more, you can just delete it.
You can also delete the bin.v2 directory.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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