Re: [Boost-users] Easy Build and Install

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Easy Build and Install
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-11 02:50:05

Rodolfo Federico Gamarra wrote:

> 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".

Which suggests you was building as root -- rarely a good idea.

> 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.

This is already fixed in SVN HEAD>

- Volodya