Hi Andy, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Andrew Fant <[email protected]> wrote: > While we're on the topic of compiling, what is it from the boost sources > that rdkit needs to compile that isn't in the various linux binary > packages? On ubuntu, I've installed all the libboost-dev types, and I > point BOOST_BUILD_PATH and BOOSTHOME to /usr/share/boost-build (which is > where all the internal jam files and such are kept), but the compile > bombs out complaining that jam can't find a jamfile in > /usr/share/boost-build. I assume it's looking for the one that is used > to actually build boost from source, but my boost-fu is weak. Does > rdkit actually try and force a recompile of boost at build time, or are > there just bits and pieces of the source that it wants to assimilate > into its own tree?
That's a very good question that I (shamefully) can't at the moment provide a particularly satisfactory answer to. I will do some investigating and try to come up with an explanation for what is going on; probably sometime later this week. In the meantime, the easiest thing is to just follow the RDKit build instructions and use a self-built copy of boost. The parts the RDKit needs don't take particularly long to build. I agree that this is far from an optimal solution. -greg
