Re: [Boost-users] Trying to compile boost 1.40

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Trying to compile boost 1.40
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-21 08:46:43

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Vladimir Prus<vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Vladimir Prus<vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to compile boost 1.40 to start playing with the PBGL.
>>>>> I tried using bjam and followed the basic instructions but it fails
>>>>> to inspect my system and leads to:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ./bjam install
>>>>> Note: Building Boost.Regex with Unicode/ICU support enabled
>>>>> Using ICU in  /usr/include
>>>>> warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader.
>>>>> note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the
>>>>> note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively.
>>>>> warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
>>>>> note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user_config.jam
>>>>> warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
>>>>> note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
>>>>
>>>> Did you do as suggested above?
>>>
>>> I did 4 google search on 'user_config.jam boost', they all linked to
>>> deprecated documentation (they would not even be available from google
>>> cache), so I simply gave up. I only need the PBGL part, from VTK which
>>> is cmake based, so it seems more natural to use cmake for building
>>> boost.
>>
>> Did you read getting started guide? It has direct link to Boost.Build
>> documentation. The specific page you need is:
>>
>> http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
>>
>> If you have used bootstrap.sh, you can also edit project-config.jam in root
>> folder of Boost.
>>
>> Also, it seems the above message has a typo -- it has user-config.jam in
>> one place, and user_config.jam in another (ironically, printed by PBGL).
>> I'll fix the misspelled one.
> 
> I would think that this might be the actual reason why I was getting
> garbage from a google search (I used the underscore version) :)

Fixed in SVN HEAD and release branch, meanwhile. Thanks for reporting!

- Volodya