Re: [boost] Re: Building Boost on Linux

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-13 19:21:41

At 05:07 PM 3/13/2002, Braden McDaniel wrote:

 >> 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.

Whatever works:-)  I did it that way because I simply didn't know enough 
about Linux to do it any other way.  It was pretty impressive that I had a 
operating system I'd never used before installed, gcc built, jam built, two 
libraries built, a dozen programs built, and everything passing regression 
tests in a day or so of work.

--Beman