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: doug livesey (biot023_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-14 14:05:18

That seems to have done the trick, thanks!
The install has worked, anyway -- I'll get around to testing it this
weekend.
Thanks very, very much!
   Doug.

On 14 July 2011 08:42, Thomas Heller <thom.heller_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:32 AM, doug livesey <biot023_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >> Which docs? Did you try the Getting Started Guide?
> > Yes -- on the page you link to, it says "If you're using a compiler other
> > than your system's default, you'll need to use Boost.Build to create
> > binaries."
> > I'm using clang (because that's the most up-to-date C++ compiler I've
> been
> > able to install on my machine), so I need to build the binaries, I guess?
>
> Building the Boost.Build binaries with the default system compiler
> should be fine.
> What you want to do is to invoke the actual building with a different
> toolset.
> This is what you want to do:
> $ cd boost_1_47_0
> $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/path/to/your/boost/installation
> $ ./b2 toolset=clang install
>
> these set of commands will build the b2 with gcc, but the libraries
> itself with clang.
>
> HTH,
> Thomas
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