Re: [Boost-users] bootstrap.sh questions (compiling v1.39)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] bootstrap.sh questions (compiling v1.39)
From: Raymond Wan (r.wan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-22 02:26:03

Hi Volodya,

Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> By the way, not a big problem, but the libraries are being placed in
>> /lib, despite me using --prefix in both the bootstrap.sh command and
>> bjam (I tried both because doing it for either one wasn't working :-) ).
>>   In both cases, I did:  --prefix=/usr/local/boost_1_39_0 .  Is this a
>> bug that I should report or does this switch do something else?
> 
> It is a known bug, fixed in SVN; passing additional --libdir option is the workaround.

Ah, I see; I'll give the --libdir option a try rather than retrieving 
from the SVN repository.  Thank you!

Ray