Re: [Boost-build] Compiling boost on linux with nonstandard bzlib.h location

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Compiling boost on linux with nonstandard bzlib.h location
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-13 00:28:13

AMDG

On 05/12/2015 03:34 PM, Simon Ye wrote:
> I'm trying to compile boost (1.57 on linux RHEL6) which doesn't have bzip2
> installed. (See https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/pull/322) Therefore
> to get it to work I can set BZIP2_INCLUDE and BZIP2_LIBPATH to my custom
> bzip2 install. Is there any way to add a directory to the search path of
> all header files/libraries for B2?

Yes, there is.

b2 include=/my/include/path

See
http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/overview/invocation.html#bbv2.overview.invocation.properties

> I was assuming not otherwise there would
> be no need for the BZIP2_* and ZLIB_* environment variables.
> 

These variables are only applied for building
components that need bzip2 or zlib.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe