Re: [Boost-users] boost 1.47.0 installation

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost 1.47.0 installation
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-13 00:18:29

AMDG

On 09/12/2012 06:50 AM, Usman Dastgeer wrote:
> I am trying to install boost for the first time as part of rose compiler
> installation. Here is what I did on a Linux machine:
> 
> downloaded, extracted boost 1.47.0
> ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/home/usmda/rose/
> boost/install2 --with-python-version=2.7
> ./bjam install -sGCC=gcc-4.4 -sGXX=g++-4.4
> --prefix=/home/usmda/rose/boost/install2
> 
> Default gcc version is 4.7.1 [/usr/bin/g(cc|++)] on this machine so I
> specify the gcc 4.4 [/usr/bin/g(cc|++)-4.4] for 2 reasons:
> 1) I need to use gcc 4.4 to compile rose compiler as well.
> 2) I read that gcc 4.7.1 disables boost threading support so that's why I
> want to use gcc 4.4 but specifying -sGCC and -sGXX didn't help as still I
> guess it uses gcc-4.7.1 (as shown in log below).*
> *

Why would you expect this to do anything?
After you run bootstrap.sh, there should
be a project-config.jam.  Edit it to change
the line that say using gcc ; to
using gcc : : g++-4.4 ;

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe