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using the instructions at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

I am at the instructions at ./bjam install

Just received the error "skipped 831 targets"

I am pretty sure something is wrong. Anyone done this before on Ubuntu? Can any one help me?

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  • Please pastebin your entire build log, verbatim, and post a link here. Commented Jul 7, 2011 at 4:19
  • Overlaps with: askubuntu.com/questions/61384/… Commented Sep 30, 2011 at 17:49

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I highly recommend you to use Personal Package Archives (PPAs) if you're on Ubuntu. This one provides

the absolute latest bleeding edge versions of boost, currently 1.47, that works great for my development.

To add this archive to your package database just do

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:purplekarrot/ppa;
sudo apt-get update;

and to install for example Boost.Thread you do

sudo apt-get install libboost-thread-dev;

Why reinvent the wheel? This also prevents you from having to redirect include and library paths in your build settings.

You can find most open source software already packaged on Launchpad PPAs. Here you can search its contents.

This is an example of Ubuntus nice trade-off between user freedom and control.

Note that different PPAs support different combinations of Ubuntu releases. This link is a sample search for boost and 1.46.

This one installs, I guess more tested, 1.46.1 on Natty, Maverick and Karmic alongside existing Boost version using

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tim-klingt/ppa;

and this one install 1.47 on Oeneric, Natty and Maverick by replacing the existing version through

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:purplekarrot/ppa; # Upgrades default boost

You can also undo these operations using the shell command ppa-purge. There is also y-ppa-manager which you can get from, you guessed it, a PPA!

Good luck!

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Thanks Nord.I did as you said and it installed library boost. You say this takes care of all the necessary things for linking libraries. Correct? Even with me using C::B? It seems it now knows where the libraries but asking about global variables...
Yes, the first link should install 1.47 as your default Boost. What do you mean by C::B? Could you please paste in the the output messages (notes, warnings and errrors) from the build (compilation).
It works pretty well for me. Except that the results files libboost_* end with the (old?) convention of having the '-mt' at the end of the name. So now I have to link to, for example, -lboost_regex-mt. I wish there were a sort of pkg-config for boost. Could anybody resolve the -mt convention annoyance?
some problems: as described here, lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/08/170234.php the provided library is not compiled with c++0x, so some functions calls (notably boost::filesystem::copy_file) will not compile if you use c++0x.
@Nordlöw Currently I have installed Boost 1.42 on Maverick. I followed your tutorial (purplekarrot) but when I run sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev the installation routine states that I have "already the newest version". How can I install 1.48 on Maverick?
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Probably, you need to have administrator privileges to install libraries in /lib or /usr/lib directories. Try sudo ./bjam install

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@Justin Elliott: What don't you understand? sudo allows you to execute commands as another user. Here you're calling bjam as root, so you're allowed to write to /usr/lib. By the way you should accept the answer if it has solved your problem.
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