Re: [Boost-users] Building rc_1_34_0 (w/python)

From: Kelly Burkhart (kelly.burkhart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-29 09:34:26

On 3/28/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>
> The instructions for building Boost.Python with BBv2 are still being
> written.  Thanks for your patience.
>

David,

Thanks for the reply, the primary problem was that I did not have
user-config.jam in my home directory.  I was in some sense wearing
blinders.  After years of building and installing like this:

./configure
make
(become root)
make install

It didn't occur to me that I needed a configuration file in some
directory other than where I issued the bjam command.  This could have
been caused by my reluctance to dig through the substantial boost
build documentation to use the tool one time.  Or my thick skull.

Is there some file that bjam looks for in the source directory in
which I could have put the contents of user-config.jam?  Even with the
knowledge that HOME is the proper location for the file, it is still
not nice in this scenario:

- download boost
- build bjam
- create user-config.jam in home directory
- bjam ... stage
- check that build succeeded
- become root
- copy the same user-config.jam to root's home directory
- bjam ... install
- clean up user-config.jam files so that they don't surprise me 2
years from now when I try to remember this process to build 1.35.

Hope my experience assists you in improving the build documentation.

Thanks again,

-K