&gt; <meta charset="utf-8">Which docs? Did you try the Getting Started Guide?<div>Yes -- on the page you link to, it says &quot;<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; ">If you&#39;re using a compiler other than your system&#39;s default, you&#39;ll need to use <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/tools/build/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 156); ">Boost.Build</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; ">to create binaries.&quot;</span></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">I&#39;m using clang (because that&#39;s the most up-to-date C++ compiler I&#39;ve been able to install on my machine), so I need to build the binaries, I guess?<br>

</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2011 08:20, Thomas Heller <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:thom.heller@googlemail.com">thom.heller@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:25 AM, doug livesey &lt;<a href="mailto:biot023@gmail.com">biot023@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; You should run the bootstrap script and b2 executable from the boost root<br>
&gt;&gt; directory (not tools/build/v2).<br>
&gt; Ah, yes, but I want to install b2 so that I can build boost myself (I&#39;m<br>
&gt; using clang, not GCC), and the docs say to do that in tools/build/v2 first.<br>
<br>
</div>Which docs? Did you try the Getting Started Guide?<br>
<a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#prepare-to-use-a-boost-library-binary" target="_blank">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#prepare-to-use-a-boost-library-binary</a><br>


<br>
I may miss something ... but this procedure is working for me since<br>
quite a while now ... As for installing b2, it is enough to put it<br>
into $PATH<br>
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