id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
3228,"Documentation Improvement - Include ""--exec-prefix"" in Example",eldon_nelson@…,Dave Abrahams,"I would like to propose a usability fix to the Getting Started Guide at the following location.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#id27

""Select your configuration options and invoke ./bootstrap.sh again without the --help option. Unless you have write permission in your system's /usr/local/ directory, you'll probably want to at least use""

BEFORE         $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix
PROPOSED FIXED $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix --exec-prefix=path/to/installation/prefix

""--exec-prefix"" is needed to make sure that the libs can go where you want too - they default to the /lib dir which is not writeable by most people.

Thanks again!

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REFERENCE
Installation directories:
  --prefix=PREFIX           install Boost into the given PREFIX
                            [/usr/local]
  --exec-prefix=EPREFIX     install Boost binaries into the given EPREFIX
                            [PREFIX]

More precise control over installation directories:
  --libdir=DIR              install libraries here [EPREFIX/lib]
  --includedir=DIR          install headers here [PREFIX/include]",Patches,closed,Boost 1.40.0,Getting Started Guide,Boost 1.39.0,Optimization,invalid,,