[Boost-users] Building boost with a locally built g++

Subject: [Boost-users] Building boost with a locally built g++
From: Mark Summerfield (list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-12 10:24:54

Hi,

I have two locally built g++'s and want to build boosts to go with them.

Unfortunately I've never used jam and despite reading the docs haven't
succeeded.

I created a user-config.jam file with the single line:

using gcc : 4.7 : /home/mark/opt/gcc47/bin/g++ :
<compileflags>-std=c++11 -pedantic <linkflags>-lstdc++ -lpthread
-L/home/mark/opt/gcc47/lib -L/home/mark/opt/gcc47/lib64
<address-model>64;

but this seems to be ignored.

All I want to do is build boost for my local g++ 4.6 in ~/opt/gcc46 and
my local g++ 4.7 in ~/opt/gcc47.

Can anyone give me or point me to some simple instructions for doing
this? I did not find
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
at all helpful for my situation. In particular, section 5.2 didn't help
and b2 just keeps using the system's /usr/bin/g++.

(I want boost primarily for its regex library.)

Thanks!

PS I'm not a subscriber so would appreciate being cc'd in any reply.

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