"bjam install" tries to put libraries directly into /lib/ although --prefix is set

[peterschueller]

I downloaded 1.39.0 and did

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/home/staff/ps --without-libraries=python bjam install

bjam then builds and tries to install the libraries into /lib/... and not into /home/staff/ps/lib/ as intended

(install libraries in [EPREFIX/lib], exec prefix = [PREFIX], prefix = given)

[anonymous]

using --libdir=/home/staff/ps/lib as additional argument to ./boostrap.sh works flawlessly

[Steven Watanabe]

This is a known bug which will be fixed in 1.40.

[Peter Schüller <schueller.p@…>]

I just downloaded 1.40.0 and it no longer tries to install into /lib but into /usr/local/lib although I specified --prefix as /home/staff/ps

Additionally specifying --libdir again solves the problem.

[Steven Watanabe]

What does the project-config.jam generated by bootstrap.bat contain at the end where it sets prefix, etc.?

[Steven Watanabe]

I just tried 1.40 and --prefix seems to work with bootstrap.sh. I'm not sure why it didn't work for you.

[Peter Schüller <schueller.p@…>]

I tried again, even with a completely new unpacked tar.gz, and now it works.

I'm sorry, the bug is fixed for me, obviously I did something wrong the first time.

[Vladimir Prus]

Thanks for re-checking. I'm marking this bug closed. Should it reappear, please reopen, and provide the exact commands you have used, so that we have a chance to understand the problem.