Re: [Boost-build] Installing boost 1.59 from .tgz on Linux Mint 17.3 failed with "command.c(63): error: identifier "__INT_MAX__" is undefined"

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Installing boost 1.59 from .tgz on Linux Mint 17.3 failed with "command.c(63): error: identifier "__INT_MAX__" is undefined"
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-17 13:18:33

On 17/12/2015 16:59, Andreas Delleske wrote:
> Dear Steven,
>
> Thanks for answering!
>
>>    This isn't 1.59.  newstr.c was renamed quite
>> a while ago.  The other errors also correspond
>> to code that has been significantly changed.
> I beg to differ:
>
> I've downloaded boost 1.59.0 (again) from the website
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.59.0/boost_1_59_0.tar.gz/download
>
> into /opt/boost/1.59.0/
>
> After untarring:
>
> [...]
> boss boost_1_59_0 # ./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=intel-linux
> --prefix=/root/intel-linux

Works for me with Intel-15.0.2 on Ubuntu.

As a quick workaround can you not build bjam with gcc?  The compiler you 
use to build bjam has no relation to what's used to actually build Boost 
BTW, so you can still build Boost with the Intel toolset.

HTH, John.