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[Shawn Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It just says unable to find the location of BOOST, consider setting the 
BOOST_DIR variable.  I assume that means set the withBoostDir=$BOOST_DIR 
when doing "scons configure".

Could you send me your directory structure for boost?  Perhaps I just 
installed it incorrectly.  Also tell what your BOOST_DIR is, please.

- Shawn

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Johannes Ring wrote:

> Hi Shawn,
>
> The file scons/simula_scons.log should give you some hints about what went
> wrong when generating the Boost pkg-config files. You can also try to run
> the pkg-config generators directly and see what happens. First set the
> BOOST_DIR variable and then run
>
>  python
> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/boost_filesystem.py
>
> What is the output of this command? It should generate a file
> boost_filesystem.pc in the current directory if successful. Also try to
> run boost.py and boost_program_options.py in the same folder. There is no
> need to create symbolic links when using the --layout=system option.
>
> Johannes
>
> On Wed, June 24, 2009 21:31, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > ok, I know this has been beat to death, but I seem to be having problems
> > generating the boost.pc files with scons.  I have installed the latest
> > boost 1.39.0 (which uses bjam).  I also set the --layout=system option
> > that Ring had suggested.  But when I run scons configure with the correct
> > boost directory, it fails to generate the boost.pc file.
> >
> > The last time I had this problem I had to make symbolic links so that
> > scons could find it.  But I don't need to now because the filenames are
> > already generic.
> >
> > - Shawn
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