Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #629: boost 1.33.1 build error

paulmelis — Fri, 12 May 2006 11:24:38 GMT

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added the error output

haution — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:53:29 GMT

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I am getting exactly the same problem on RedHat ES4 (2.6.9
kernel) with boost 1.33.1, and boost 1.33.0 also builds fine
on this platform ...
PH

haution — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:44:30 GMT

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OK, I painfully found the reason for my problem in the
mailing list :
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/12/98015.php
Andrew Maclean had the same problem on Windows and his
solution worked for me on Linux.
As he said :
"Maybe a note should be added to the user instructions for
building Boost ... along the line:
If you have any environment variables such as BOOST_INCLUDE,
BOOST_LIB,
BOOST_ROOT, BOOST_VERSION. Delete or rename them before
running bjam."
PH

paulmelis — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:17:53 GMT

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Eeeek, I had some of those env vars set because of a
previously installed version of boost. Removing them from
the environment indeed makes boost build!
Funny that 1.33.0 wasn't affected by this though...

az_sw_dude — Mon, 29 May 2006 23:42:58 GMT

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Assign to Vladimir -- please reassign if there is a better
boost.build person to look at this.

status, resolution, component, description changed; severity set

René Rivera — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:34:47 GMT

status assigned → closed
resolution None → fixed
component None → build
description modified (diff)
severity → Showstopper

This is fixed for Boost 1.34.0 since BBv2 doesn't use env vars, and guards against collisions when it the rare case it does.