Re: [Boost-users] Trying to install 1.47 on Snow Leopard using clang toolset gives error "missing argument parent-requirements"

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Trying to install 1.47 on Snow Leopard using clang toolset gives error "missing argument parent-requirements"
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-14 03:20:47

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:25 AM, doug livesey <biot023_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> You should run the bootstrap script and b2 executable from the boost root
>> directory (not tools/build/v2).
> Ah, yes, but I want to install b2 so that I can build boost myself (I'm
> using clang, not GCC), and the docs say to do that in tools/build/v2 first.

Which docs? Did you try the Getting Started Guide?
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#prepare-to-use-a-boost-library-binary

I may miss something ... but this procedure is working for me since
quite a while now ... As for installing b2, it is enough to put it
into $PATH