[boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-26 21:56:10

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Arkadiy Vertleyb" <vertleyb_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote
>>
>>
>>>>error: unable to construct
>>>>../libs/program_options/build/boost_program_options
>>>
>>>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>>That's a C++ library.  I see a correlation here ;-)
>>>
>>>How about editing your user-config.jam file?  You can copy it from
>>>tools/build/v2/user-config.jam into your $HOME directory.
>>
>>I guess I am missing the whole picture here...  What are the pieces I need?
>>
>>1) bjam -- I got it with Rene's install, and it's in my path.  I assume
>>nothing else need to be done about it...
> 
> 
> I don't know enough about Rene's thing to tell you for sure, but if
> Rene installed a pre-built binary and hasn't recently updated his
> installer program and you are using Boost's CVS you probably need a
> more up-to-date version of bjam than the one he supplied you with,
> because the CVS version of Boost.Build is using some features that
> were recently added to bjam.

It's a build from yesterday's CVS state :-) I haven't updated it to 
contain the changes to bjam I've done today.

I tried running "bjam --v2" in the docs directory and I don't get the 
above error. This is because I do set up all the tools possible, msvc, 
cw, python, xsltproc, boostbook, doxygen, and quickbook, with the 
attached user-config.jam.

My guess is that since Arkadiy did not have a user-config.jam, and hence 
did not set up the boostbook tools, it defaulted to trying to build 
them. But since a C++ compiler was not available it fails even that.

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ECHO @@@ HOME/user-config.jam ;
import msvc-config ;
import cw-config ;
import python-config ;
import xsltproc-config ;
import boostbook-config ;
import doxygen-config ;
import quickbook-config ;