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| author | Marcus Müller <marcus@hostalia.de> | 2014-04-01 12:41:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Marcus Müller <marcus@hostalia.de> | 2014-04-01 12:55:11 +0200 |
| commit | f5dd2ac039e50f1a2655070813843524acf72f33 (patch) | |
| tree | c83b376d248521a96f1018a76f02ee5a39126d11 /README.building-boost | |
| parent | a60337ff6c0c1a11daf785ffb7f20fedf5c7aa43 (diff) | |
Worked out a few kinks and anachronism in the README.*
building-boost:
* Added information about PyBOMBS
* Fixed minor typos
hacking:
* removed ancient commentary of jcorgan
* updated naming scheme convention
Diffstat (limited to 'README.building-boost')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.building-boost | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.building-boost b/README.building-boost index a281e8bd78..eea4df3889 100644 --- a/README.building-boost +++ b/README.building-boost @@ -6,6 +6,29 @@ If running a distribution that requires boost 1.35 (or later) be built from scratch, these instructions explain how to do so, and in a way that allows it to peacefully coexist with earlier versions of boost. +There are two recommended methods: +Installing boost using the PyBOMBS utility, or building it from a source +tarball. + +1. Installing Boost using ByBOMBS +--------------------------------- + +Following http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki/Using you can +install a recent boost by downloading and executing the PyBombs utility: + +# go to a directory you have write access to +$ git clone git://github.com/pybombs/pybombs +$ cd pybombs +$ ./pybombs install boost + +The utility will take care of everything from thereon, install it from a +package source if a recent version is available for your system or build +it from source if necessary. + + +2. Building Boost from a source tarball +--------------------------------------- + Download the latest version of boost from boost.sourceforge.net. (boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2 was the latest when this was written). Different Boost versions often have different installations. If these @@ -36,7 +59,7 @@ required will just save compilation time. Installing GNU Radio with new Boost libraries. -Tell cmake to look for the Boost libraries and header files in the new location with the folloing command: +Tell Cmake to look for the Boost libraries and header files in the new location with the following command: $ cd <build directory> $ cmake -DBOOST_ROOT=$BOOST_PREFIX -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=$BOOST_PREFIX/include/boost-1_49/ -DBoost_LIBRARY_DIRS=$BOOST_PREFIX/lib <path to gnuradio source tree> |