[Boost-users] Problems Building Boost 1.33.1 on Ubuntu 5.10 x86 From Scratch

From: kfjethro (kfjethro_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-27 10:56:35

I know that there are probably packages available for this platform
but for several reasons I need to build Boost 1.33.1 from scratch.

I have no problems with compiliing from scratch on Ubuntu 6.06.

After unpacking the source files and placing the precompiled bjam
executable in the boost source directory, I run the following:

cd ./boost_1_33_1
./bjam -sTOOLS=gcc –-prefix=/usr/local/boost-1.33.1 install

My /usr/local/boost-1.33.1 is owned by me and writeable.

Any suggestions ? Thanks.

The truncated bjam output is :

Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
(and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
---------------------------------------------------------------------
*** If you don't need Boost.Python, you can ignore this section  ***
*** pass --without-python to suppress this message in the future ***

skipping Boost.Python library build due to missing or incorrect configuration

couldn't find Python.h in "/usr/include/python2.4"

You can configure the location of your python installation by setting:
PYTHON_VERSION - The 2-part python Major.Minor version number (e.g.
                 "2.2", NOT "2.2.1")  - currently "2.4"

PYTHON_ROOT    - currently "/usr"

The following are automatically configured from PYTHON_ROOT if not
otherwise set:

    PYTHON_LIB_PATH       - path to Python library object; currently
                            "/usr/lib/python2.4/config"
    PYTHON_INCLUDES       - path to Python #include directories; currently
                            "/usr/include/python2.4"
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Jamfile:278: in load-jamfiles
*** argument error
* rule stage ( name : sources + : requirements * : local-build * )
* called with: (  :
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/cwchar
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/csignal
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/climits
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/cfloat
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/b

<<<< middle truncated >>>>>>

r_traits.hpp /home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/bucket_sorter.hpp
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/fibonacci_heap.hpp
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/iterator_tests.hpp
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/detail/int_iterator.hpp
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/detail/property.hpp
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost/pending/detail/disjoint_sets.hpp :
<locate>/usr/local <tree-subdirs>/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1
<target>install : )
* missing argument name
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/v1/boost-base.jam:2330:see
definition of rule 'stage' being called
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/v1/bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build
/home/lawrence/boost_1_33_1/boost-build.jam:16: in module scope