Newbie: compiling boost with ftjam fails

From: Elias Biris (ebiris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-30 05:21:28

Hi,

I am a newbie in STL and Boost libraries I have downloaded the latest 
version of Boost and ftjam and tried to build boost, but I am getting the 
following error when executing
jam -ftools/build/allyourbase.jam -sTOOLS="gcc gcc"

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...found 181 targets...
...updating 48 targets...
gcc-C++-action 
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dynamic/c_regex_traits.o 

gcc-C++-action 
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dynamic/c_regex_traits_common.o 

gcc-C++-action 
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dynamic/cpp_regex_traits.o 

gcc-C++-action 
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dynamic/cregex.o
In file included from libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex.hpp:44,
from libs/regex/build/../src/cregex.cpp:27:
libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex/detail/regex_stack.hpp:47: parse 
error before `<'
libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex/detail/regex_stack.hpp:52: 
`Allocator' was not declared in this scope
libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex/detail/regex_stack.hpp:52: template 
argument 2 is invalid
libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex/detail/regex_stack.hpp:52: `type' is 
not a class or namespace
libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex/detail/regex_stack.hpp:52: warning: 
ANSI C++ forbids typedef which does not specify a type
libs/regex/build/../../../boost/regex/detail/regex_stack.hpp:52: confused 
by earlier errors, bailing out

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I am running that on a Linux  2.2.12-20 kernel (i586 machine). My gcc is 
2.95. The syntax offending line (47 in regex_stack.hpp) contains a template 
declaration with a specific allocator.

all tips will be gratefully appreciated

Elias Biris,  Software Engineer,                        R&D Livingston
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