Re: [boost] how to specify options for Boost-building?

Subject: Re: [boost] how to specify options for Boost-building?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-12 14:29:36

AMDG

Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> So the remaining open problems is how to get my *local* gcc working?
> Apparently
>
>  --toolset=gcc-4.1.2
>  --toolset-root=PATH-TO-LOCAL-INSTALLATION
>  --"-sGCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=PATH-TO-LOCAL-INSTALLATION"
>
> which used to work for boost 1_34_1, is no longer working.
>
> According to 
>
> http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
>
> all what I need to do instead seems to tell bjam the full path to my g++ (and then
> apparently it figures out the rest): Can this information be passed as a parameter,
> or is such a .jam-file needed? 
>   

A .jam file is needed.

>>> 3) No python; this seems also unproblematic
>>> (but apparently it vanished from the documentation?)
>>>
>>>  --without-python
>>>       
>> It is present in "--help" output.
>>     
>
> But it "python" a library?
>   

Yes.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe