Re: Building Boost on Linux

From: simonwlb (conic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-13 18:02:30

--- In boost_at_y..., Braden McDaniel <braden_at_e...> wrote:
> Quoting Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_a...>:
> 
> > At 03:58 PM 3/13/2002, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > 
> >  >Quoting Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_a...>:
> >  >
> >  >> At 11:15 PM 3/12/2002, Douglas Gregor wrote:
> >  >>
> >  >>  >I presume that the Windows file system is indeed a FAT file 
system
> >  >> (because
> >  >>  >NTFS is very poorly supported under Linux) ...
> >  >>
> >  >> I mount Win2k/NTFS directories under Redhat Linux 7.2 and run 
Jam and
> >  >other
> >  >>
> >  >> simple operations without difficulty.  So there has to be a 
bit more to
> > 
> > it
> >  >
> >  >> than that.
> >  >
> >  >>From what I gather, that's more or less the state of things. 
You must be
> > 
> > 
> >  >running a custom kernel.
> > 
> > No, straight install from the distribution disk.  Here is the 
portion of 
> > the script that does the mount:
> > 
> >    if ! mount -t smbfs //p-500/c /p-500; then
> >      echo 'mount //p-500/c failed'
> >      exit 1
> >    fi
> 
> Aha... You're using Samba rather than mounting them as NTFS 
partitions.
> 
> -- 
> Braden McDaniel                                   e-mail: 
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OK.  I have now managed to build boost on my Linux machine.  (You 
should have seen the smile on my face!)

As a real newbie on Linux, I can't provide this group complete 
information.  But basically, I had used WinZip to unpack the 
boost_1_27_0.tar.gz and then proceeded to work under some sort of 
mounted Windows system on Linux.  Errors abounded.

This morning I did the whole process on a Linux partition (using tar 
to unpack boost).  Instant success!

However my Windows system has been mounted on Linux, must not be 
right for these tools.  

Thanks everyone for all the support.

Simon.