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Hi Johannes,
   that's what I ended up doing in the end and everything builds if  
you pass withBoostDir=/usr/local to scons on Macosx (assuming boost  
was installed in /usr/local).

it's only problematic if you want to keep several versions of boost  
around (e.g. my FEniCS 2009-04 was built on the default 1.33 libraries).

but I have plenty of workarounds
cheers and thanks for looking at this
marc

On Jun 24, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Johannes Ring wrote:

> On Wed, June 24, 2009 14:48, Johannes Ring wrote:
> > On Thu, June 18, 2009 10:07, Johannes Ring wrote:
> > > On Thu, June 18, 2009 01:30, mspieg wrote:
> > > > 	B) I've rebuilt boost (1.38 and 1.39) by hand just fine, but in
> > > > general, there are a lot of possible variations on the naming of
> > > > boost libraries (e.g. the default naming conventions for the
> > > > libraries can include version and  compiler information such as
> > > > libboost_program_options-xgcc40-mt.dylib).  It would be useful if
> > > > the boost package generators were a bit more thorough in  
> > > > determining
> > > > how to call things (maybe a bit of glob would help).
> > >
> > > Yes, the Boost pkg-config generator could be more robust. I can  
> > > take a
> > > look at it later.
> >
> > I have looked at this now and I think it would be a mess to add  
> > support
> > for all possible naming variations of the Boost libraries. I think a
> > better approach is to suggest for people building Boost from  
> > source that
> > they build Boost with the --layout=system option. This way the  
> > names of
> > the Boost libraries does include the Boost version and the compiler
> > version.
>
> Sorry, there is a missing 'not' in the above sentence. It should read:
>
> This way the names of the Boost libraries does not include the Boost
> version and the compiler version.
>
> > Also, the header files are installed under $BOOST_DIR/include
> > instead of $BOOST_DIR/include/boost-x_y.
> >
> > Johannes
> >
> >
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Columbia University
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