Re: [Boost-users] Cannot build Boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Cannot build Boost
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-22 02:35:31

Ondřej Majerech wrote:

> Okay, I'll reply to myself for the last time.
> 
> I got it working. The problem was that I was using bjam from the
> standalone Boost Jam tarball. Using the bjam bundled with the Boost
> tarball itself fixed it.
> 
> I, however, believe that the documentation is very confusing on this
> matter. First, this --
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/jam/building.html --
> says that bjam should be located in BOOST_ROOT/tools/jam/src. There is
> no such path in the latest Boost tarball. Second, documentation
> nowhere mentions that users are expected to use the bundled bjam -- or
> indeed that there *is* any bjam bundled with the boost tarball --
> instead of the standalone bjam distribution.
> 
> It would be great if the documentation were updated to reflect the
> latest correct build procedures.

What documentation are you looking at? The getting started guide recommends
that you use:

        ./bootstrap.sh
        ./bjam

to build boost. Have you seen that recommendation? If no, do you have
any suggestions how to make it more visible? If yes, why have you decided
not to follow it?

Thanks,
Volodya