[Boost-users] Easy Build and Install

Subject: [Boost-users] Easy Build and Install
From: Rodolfo Federico Gamarra (rgamarra_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-10 23:34:10

Hi all,

I've downloaded boost_1_39_0.tar.gz and proceeded as told in

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

When the last step (./bjam install) was finished, I didn't find a
"lib" directory within my prefix path (as told in that page and by
./bootstrap.sh --help). After looking for a while I found the
libraries in "/lib".

Taking a look at the bootstrap.sh file I noticed

# Setup paths
if test "x$EPREFIX" = x; then
  EPREFIX="$PREFIX"
fi

if test "x$LIBDIR" = x; then
  LIBDIR="$EXPREFIX/lib"
fi

Note that for building "LIBDIR" "EXPREFIX" is used instead of
"EPREFIX", the former one does not appear anymore in the file. It
seems that there was a typo.

Thanks a lot.

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Rodolfo Federico Gamarra