Re: [Boost-users] [Install] Am I doing something silly....?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Install] Am I doing something silly....?
From: Olaf Peter (ope-devel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-26 08:33:36

>     without reading your full log file, do you have write permissions on
>     /usr/local (maybe /usr/local mounted ro)? I guess, you have sudo on
>     Fedora, try on install time sudo ./bjam install  .....
> 
>     Regards,
>     Olaf
> 
> 
> Hi Olaf - thanks for replying. I do not have permission for /usr/local,
> but why I should
> need it is one of the things that puzzles me. Since I specified
> ~/thirdparty/... as the prefix
> to bootstrap I figured I should be able to run this as me, not as root?

IIRC you need to specify the prefix=... on bjam's install option as well
(I don't have nor my linux box or bjam here). bjam is different from
autotools or even cmake ;-)

Regards,
Olaf