[Boost-users] Build error: "duplicate initialization of gcc"

Subject: [Boost-users] Build error: "duplicate initialization of gcc"
From: Tim Martin (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-06 07:58:43

I downloaded boost 1.37.0, unzipped and ran

$ ./configure
$ make install

It dies reliably with:
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./tools/jam/src/bin.linuxx86/bjam -sICU_PATH=/usr 
--user-config=user-config.jam --prefix=/home/timm 
--exec-prefix=/home/timm --libdir=/home/timm/lib 
--includedir=/home/timm/include  install
error: at 
/home/timm/downloads/boost_1_37_0/tools/build/v2/build/project.jam:846
error: duplicate initialization of gcc with the following parameters:
error: version = 4.3.2
error: previous initialization at 
/home/timm/downloads/boost_1_37_0/tools/build/v2/build/project.jam:846

Not all Boost libraries built properly.
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This is on a relatively unmodified Ubuntu Intrepid linux install. I 
could only find one other mention of this problem on the web and it was 
a mailing list post with no answer, so I'm apparently doing something 
quite unusually wrong.

FWIW, the reason I'm building from source rather than using a package is 
that the Ubuntu packages don't seem to provide a binary lib for MPI - am 
I missing something here? They provide header files, so it seems 
eccentric not to provide a package with libs.

Tim