RE: Installing Boost

From: schalk_cronje_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-02-28 11:24:46

> 
> $prefix/include/boost/1.27.0/boost/.../*.hpp
> $prefix/lib/boost/1.27.0/*.(a,so)
> $prefix/share/boost/1.27.0/tools/build/*.jam

I prefer this kind of approach. On Linux (Mandrake or RedHat) I would rather
use $prefix/include/boost-1.27.0/boost with a symbolic link from
$prefix/include/boost to the default boost version. The same applies to the
compiled libraries.

> Those are the "source" files. For documentation it gets a 
> little tricky. There
> are two possible practices:
> 
> $prefix/share/boost/1.27.0/doc/...(reproduce html tree & files)

$prefix/share/doc/boost-1.27.0

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