Re: [Boost-users] Build error

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Build error
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-21 14:47:04

David Doria wrote:

>> Is the problem that an example does not compile? If so, please report that
>> via
>> http://svn.boost.org -- however, unless you specifically need that example
>> it does not seem to be showstopper.
>>
>> Unrelated to that, you don't seem to be using the official build procedure
>> documented at:
>>
>>        http://boost.org/more/getting_started.html
>>
>> That procedure does not builds examples for every library by default.
>>
>> - Volodya
>>
> 
> Volodya,
> 
> I saw that you are supposed to use the bootstrap script, but it seemed
> reasonable to make a bin directory, and from there run ccmake on the
> boost-trunk directory. 
> There was no option in the cmake configuration to not 
> build examples. Maybe this can be added for users who wish to use this
> procedure.

Cmake is not the official build procedure documented above. The official one is:

        ./bootstrap.sh
        ./bjam

You can use --build-dir and --stagedir options (documented in "bjam --help" output)
to put intermediate and final build products outside the source tree.

- Volodya