Re: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Jonathan Wakely (cow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-25 09:57:05

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:46:25PM +0200, Hendrik Schober wrote:

>     ...found 4471 targets...
>     ...updating 1123 targets...
>     ...can't find 2 targets...
>   Um, what are targets? Why does it only "update"
>   a quarter of them? Why wouldn't it find 2 of them?
>   I read the guide again. Damn! I messed this up! I
>   need to pass "vc", not "VC71_ROOT"! The guid is a
>   bit terse in that area...

Terse, but quite accurate:

   Invoke the build system, specifying the toolset(s) you wish to use,
   to build and install. For example for GNU/GCC.

       bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install

Where "toolset" is a link to the table of toolset names.
Neither "vc" nor "VC71_ROOT" is in that table.

I don't like bjam much, and I don't think users should have to use the
command line, but I do think reading instructions is a reasonable
requirement  ;)

jon