Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Installing 1.56 on Fedora 20
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-17 14:32:11
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 06:31:20PM +0100, Robert Jones wrote:
> It's been a while since I've installed Boost. Running this command on a
> completely vanilla Fedora 20
>
> b2 --prefix=~/local/boost-1.56.0 --layout=tagged link=shared
> threading=multi,single install
>
> Finally says...
>
> ...failed updating 58 targets...
> ...skipped 12 targets...
> ...updated 12214 targets...
>
> Is this normal?
The common reason for such failures is that you don't have the optional
headers/libraries for Boost.Iostreams bzip2/zlib devices, Boost.Python's
dependencies on Python headers/libraries, and ICU for whichever library
has an optional dependency on it (Locale? Filesystem?).
It's perfectly normal.
-- Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]