Re: [boost] Building BJam and Boost in Sun's Virtual Box

Subject: Re: [boost] Building BJam and Boost in Sun's Virtual Box
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-28 13:09:04

Monte Jones wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> I need to be able to use Boost in a virtual environment, specifically, Sun's
> Virtual Box.  I'm further limited in the company I am working for has not
> approved any Boost upgrades since 1.34 for use.  I thought the best way to
> approach this would be to build Boost Jam and then Boost within  the virtual
> box.  Below is what I've done so far.
> 
>  
> 
> Downloaded platform independent zip files for Boost Jam 3.14.1 and Boost
> 1.34.0 and saved into directory I called Boost

Please use tar.gz/tar.bz2 files. zip files have dos line endings, and Unix shell
is very particular about that.

- Volodya