https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12462 <p> Each time I build Boost, which is every year or two, I seem to go through the same process: </p> <p> $ cat INSTALL See ./index.html for information about this release. The "Getting Started" section is a useful starting place. </p> <hr /> <p> Copyright Beman Dawes, 2008 </p> <p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. See ./LICENSE_1_0.txt or <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txtphil@norway">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txtphil@norway</a> $ </p> <p> (Note the missing newline at the end of the file.) </p> <p> "Sigh", I think, "I remember from last time, I can't just ./configure; make -j4; make install; and the instructions for what I should do are hidden deep in some HTML file." </p> <p> Note that I'm never building on a machine with a web browser; it's always a headless system of some sort. I don't think that's too unusual. I consider installing a text-mode web browser like lynx or links of whatever, but think "it can't be that difficult". </p> <p> $ more index.html Scanning a few pages of raw HTML I find a link to... $ more more/getting_started/index.html And then... $ more more/getting_started/unix-variants.html Scanning 280 lines of HTML, I find the start of the instructions that I need. </p> <p> It would be really great if the essence of this could be copied into the INSTALL text file: </p> <p> $ ./bootstrap.sh $ ./b2 -j4 $ ./b2 install </p> <p> I.e. a translation of what autotools-based packages typically say. </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12462 Trac 1.4.3