Re: [Boost-users] Boost under Linux, invoking bootstrap

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost under Linux, invoking bootstrap
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-05 13:26:57

On 05/05/2013 07:44 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 5 May 2013 12:10, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=~/bin
>>
>> It completes succesfully but nothing is put in my home bin subdirectory. Did
>> I do something wrong ?
>
> It doesn't understand tilde paths, and will have placed in a directory
> called "~". You need to use the full path. Btw. I think it will place
> the executable at 'bin/bin', and a lot of other stuff at 'bin/share',
> which might not be what you want.
>

Thanks ! I found that out also. Because I am mostly a Windows programmer 
I thought that the bash shell replaces '~' with the user's home 
directory but that's obviously wrong. I am still learning about the bash 
shell and still making mistakes.