Re: [Boost-build] Issue building boost from root directory

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Issue building boost from root directory
From: Ceyron Hawthorne (celijahh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-07 16:29:48

It actually just finished but it says at the end of the log that it failed
updating 5 targets, it skipped 4 targets, and that it updated 4042
targets.  How do I know of the build actually succeeded? I have a bin.v2
directory in the root but I'm not sure if that signifies a build success.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016, 4:19 PM Vladimir Prus <vladimir.prus_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Depends on system really. Do you have enough RAM? Is build progressing,
> with commands started, or it is standing still?
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016, 23:15 celijahh <celijahh_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems you are right.  I re-ran bootstrap.bat but this time from the
>> root and then ran the b2 install command again and it seems to be building
>> now.  For some reason,  it's been running for around 30 minutes. How long
>> is it supposed to take?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir.prus_at_[hidden]>
>> Date: 7/7/16 2:41 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: boost-build_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Issue building boost from root directory
>>
>> On 07-Jul-16 8:01 PM, celijahh wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've been trying to build the Apache qpid messaging broker which
>> > requires boost. I set the variable BOOST_ROOT to the path of the boost
>> > root directory,  but it could only find some of the libraries.  I was
>> > informed that some of the other libraries needed to be compiled so I
>> > went through the documentation in section 5.2 for installing on windows.
>> >  I ran bootstrap.bat and then tried to run the b2 install command from
>> > the root but got the message that b2 wasn't recognized. So I went to
>> > tools\build and ran it there which worked.  However when I ran the
>> > command from 5.2.4 for the build directory I get the message that it
>> > doesn't know how to find the target or how to make <e>stage. Now boost
>> > is located in downloads on my machine so maybe that could have something
>> > to do with it,  but does anyone know what could be going wrong?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to suggestions:
>>
>> - If you have "b2" built correctly, copy it to the root of your Boost
>> tree, and run the command from 5.2.4 there. It's not supposed to be
>> run from "tools/build"
>>
>> - If you ran bootstrap.bat from root folder and it failed to produce b2
>>    binary, it should have produced some error messages. Could you post
>>    those?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Volodya
>>
>>
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