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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Help with compiling boost for Debian (receiving file not found error when compiling boost-dependant program)
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-21 11:39:49


On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Jónatan Nilsson wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I am trying to compile Ghost++, a Warcraft 3 dedicated server program
> and one of it's dependency is Boost. The following is the instruction
> on how to compile Boost from the Ghost++ documentation (a.k.a. the
> readme file):
>
> --------------------------------
> You'll need Boost version 1.38.0 (or potentially any newer versions).
> If your package manager has this version available please use it
> instead of installing it manually.
> To install Boost manually:
>
> 7. Download and extract Boost 1.38.0 from http://www.boost.org/
> 8. su to root.
> 9. ./configure --prefix=/usr
> --with-libraries=date_time,thread,system,filesystem,regex
> 10. Edit the newly created Makefile with your favourite text editor.
> The second line should be "BJAM_CONFIG=". Replace it with
> "BJAM_CONFIG= --layout=system".
> 11. make install
> --------------------------------
>
> Unfortunately you have removed the ./confiigure and make and replaced
> them with new commands: bootstrap & bjam.

I just downloaded the boost 1.38.0 release from SourceForge, and the
configure script is there.

It's not there in 1.39 because, as you say, it was removed - but that
shouldn't be a problem for you, since Ghost++ requires 1.38.

-- Marshall


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