Re: [Boost-build] Need help building Boost 1.71 modules

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-10-28 15:28:40

On 10/26/2019 10:31 AM, ERR ORR via Boost-build wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I subscribed to these lists which by feeling correspond the closest to
> what I need  the, after discovering that Boost HAS a list server.
> 
> I run Linux Fedora, GCC, Netbeans 8.2.
> 
> I recently upgraded from Boost V1.60 to V1.71. Then discovered  that
> Boost does not build  the modules I want (Asio, Xpressive) by default,
> and that the build thingy is largely obscure to me.
> 
> Looking at the log output of the build  thingy, I see that the modulus
> I want do not compile. Using the --with<module> has no apparently has
> no effect, or, with Xpressive, outputs an error.
> 
> I would be grateful if somebody could answer me some questions:
> - Why does Boost not use the classic ./configure/make/make INSTALL
> build sequence?

Boost libraries do not run only on Linux.