Re: [Boost-users] How can I find what I didn't install

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-10 12:25:57

Sebastian Redl wrote:
> Bo Yang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    I complile and installed boost 1.31 library today,
>> I followd the instructions in the website and I got part
>> of it installed.  I have seen some messages in the process
>> of compile which said , something is skiped and something
>> is failed.
>>    Now , I think part of boost have already installed. And
>> I want to know , which part I didn't install, How can I get
>> such information?
>>   Thank you !
>>   
> Things that generate "skipped" messages:
> 1) GZip and BZip2 (does it even have that?) support for Boost.IOStreams.
> (requires zlib and libbzip2)
> 2) Unicode support for Boost.Regex. (requires ICU)
> 3) I think Boost.Python is skipped if it can't find a Python installation.
> 
> Things that could fail:
> Everything. In my experience, though, Boost.Python is the most problematic.
> 
> Things you're missing:
> The optional stuff that was skipped.
> Depending on when it failed, potentially everything that has a compiled
> part: Regex, Filesystem, parts of DateTime, parts of BGL, Python - I
> think that's all.
> 
> In other words, you have everything that doesn't require compilation.

If you just missed the various messages among all the rest of the 
output, you can just rerun the install to see them. It won't reinstall 
things, it will just try to build/install what it couldn't in the first 
place.

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