Re: [boost] update from 1_44 to 1_48: build questions

Subject: Re: [boost] update from 1_44 to 1_48: build questions
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-14 05:12:49

AMDG

On 12/09/2011 05:24 PM, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> we want to update from 1_44_0 to 1_48_0.
> Our old build-process is as follows (for Linux):
> 
> 1. cd tools/jam/src
> 2. CC="$(gcc_call)" CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing" ./build.sh cc
> 3. cp bin.*/bjam $(boost_base_build_dir)
> 4. cd ../../.. 
> 5. echo "using gcc : $(gcc_version) : $(gcc_call) : ;" > $(boost_base_build_dir)/bjam_config
> 6. $(boost_base_build_dir)/bjam
>      --user-config=$(boost_base_build_dir)/bjam_config
>      --prefix=$(boost_installation_dir)
>      --build-dir=$(boost_build_dir) 
>      install 
>      --without-python --without-wave --without-mpi
>      -sBZIP2_INCLUDE=$(bzip2_source_library) -sBZIP2_LIBPATH=$(bzip2_link_library)
> 
> It seems that "b2" is (just) bjam?

Yep.

> However it is not really clear from the
> documentation how to build (and use) bjam (apparently via boostrap?)?
> And then apparently some of the above parameters of bjam, for example prefix,
> are now parameters of bootstrap?
> 
> We would be glad if somebody could tell us (or some link) how to
> update the above process.
> 

I think the above should still work.
bootstrap is really just to simplify the
process for users who don't want anything
special.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe