Re: [Boost-users] Easy install doesn't

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Easy install doesn't
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-07 16:07:12

AMDG

On 12/07/2017 05:39 AM, Jean-Louis Leroy via Boost-users wrote:
> I downloaded the current version of boost from here:
> http://www.boost.org/users/download/ (the Unix tgz)
> 
> Then I religiously followed these instructions:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#easy-build-and-install
> 
> It didn't install much of anything useful...just stuff
> in /usr/local/share/boost-build, apparently the build system. No headers
> were installed, no libs were built or installed...
> 

  That sounds like you ran it in tools/build (which
installs Boost.Build) instead of at the root (which
installs Boost).

> I tried to install from debian packages and that failed miserably too but
> that's another story...
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe