[Boost-users] How do I build with an alternate compiler location?

Subject: [Boost-users] How do I build with an alternate compiler location?
From: Eric Brown (ebrown_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-23 05:02:57

I'm trying to build on freebsd 4. (Those are my production machines,  
so I'm stuck.)

The default install is gcc 2.95 and freebsd's old ports tree contains  
patches to build boost's libraries. However, when I try to include  
boost include files, it inevitably complains about any number of  
templates gcc can't grok.

I suppose I can maybe build the libs with gcc 2.95 and my code with  
gcc 3.4.6, but I'd rather build boost with 3.4.6 too. Plus, the  
patches are for boost 1.32 and I'd rather use a later version of boost.

However, gcc34 installs into /usr/local/bin/gcc34 and a bunch of  
include files I'd usually specify -I directives in my CXXFLAGS in my  
makefile. I'm just not clear how to set these overrides for bjam. I've  
looked at the bjam docs, but it just seems a lot more complicated than  
it should be.

Cheers,
Eric