RE: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-26 13:04:51

At 07:30 2005-05-25, Paul A Bristow wrote:
>
>
>| -----Original Message-----
>| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Hendrik Schober
>| Sent: 25 May 2005 14:46
>| To: boost_at_[hidden]
>| Subject: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation
>|
>| Caleb Epstein <caleb.epstein_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>| > [...]
>| > I really think the Getting Started guide is more than
>| adequate, and is
>| > concise and easy to follow.  There are gigantic yellow
>| numbers next to
>| > the important steps.  [...] really how much more hand-holding
>| > does one need?
>|
>|
>|   OK, so I went to the that guide, downloaded boost
>|   1.32, downloaded bjam.exe, unzipped everything,
>|   and typed, IMHO according to the guide,
>|     C:\Temp\Download\boost\boost_1_32_0>..\bjam.exe bjam
>| "-sTOOLS=VC71_ROOT" stage
>
>< Big snip
>
>but my 'log' looks a bit like this - but different set of problems,
>
>and I was trying to use the current CVS AND MSVC 8.0 beta 2. Should have
>learn to walk before I tried to run :-((

I build boost 4 times a day (CVS), vc++7.1 and vc++8.0 (then run the 
regression tests)
the script I use is published where the regression results are (just click 
on RudbekAssociates)
I grant you that I'm using regression.py to do lots of the work, but I'm 
using it in pieces so what it's doing should be pretty obvious, if it's 
not, you know where to find me, my email address is in the same place.

>I need a LOT more hand holding please  - though I can dimly remember using
>command lines decades ago ;-)
>
>
>I say again - the process MUS be OK to be achieving such stunning results,
>but the documentation is NOT.
>
>Paul
>
>
>Paul A Bristow
>Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB
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>mailto: pbristow_at_[hidden]
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