Re: [Boost-users] Cannot build Boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Cannot build Boost
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-28 13:33:57

Ondřej Majerech wrote:

> On 27 November 2010 07:43, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Greg Ward wrote:
>>> So: how do you build boost 1.45 with 1) a custom compiler
>>
>> The same way as 1.44:
>>
>> ./bootstrap.sh
>> edit ./project-config.jam to specify your new compiler.
>> ./bjam toolset=whatever-version
> 
> That's excellent. I wish I'd known that before I started building Boost my way.
> 
> Can this be put into the documentation, please? Preferrably into the
> Getting Started guide.

This *is* in the getting started guide. It appears that you're not the first
one to miss that though, which suggests that the "Simplified build from source"
section should be renamed to "Build from source" section and somewhat
expanded, while the current
"Build from source" section should be remained "How to build from source
if you have really quirky requirements" and somewhat reduced. I'll try to
do that for 1.46.

- Volodya