On Monday, June 02 Rene Rivera wrote: >[2003-06-02] Malte Starostik wrote: > ><snip> >>In order to save some time downloading you can as well: >>* get only boost-jam.spec and boost.spec from the URL above >>* get the boost sources from boost.org (tar.bz2 version, not tar.gz) >>* copy tools/build/jam_src/ somewhere else and rename it to >boost-jam-3.1.4/ >>* from the boost-jam-3.1.4/'s parent dir, run tar -cf >boost-jam-3.1.4.tar >>boost-jam-3.1.4/ && bzip2 boost-jam-3.1.4.tar and copy the resulting >bzip2ed >>tarball to the SOURCES subdir of your rpm root directory. >>* build boost-jam with rpm -bb boost-jam.spec and install it > >OK, that seems rather arduos when you can just: > > cd $BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/jam_src > sh ./build.sh --- dist > >Then install the resulting RPM(s). > >Any reason why you don't use that instead? Or for that matter >use the RPM in >the SourceForge files distribution section?
For build.sh, because I didn't know about it, for the ones from SF, can't remember what exactly but I had some problems with those in the past. One thing I don't like about the .spec file inside jam_src is that it only works when rpm is invoked with some additional environment vars set, basically intended for invokation via jam. IMHO a .spec file shouldn't require this and build fine with rpm -b[abcips] or rpm -t[abcips] But thanks, I'll try them again. -Malte _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
