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| author | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2012-09-06 17:16:18 -0700 |
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| committer | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2012-09-06 17:16:18 -0700 |
| commit | d994c03292e351165eb97aa2781f551221d9e0f0 (patch) | |
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Merge pull request #78 from bkuhn/README-FAQ-on-building-own-boost-cmake
FAQ entry on how build your own Boost and/or CMake for use with Ledger.
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@@ -114,3 +114,43 @@ it's usually fairly obvious where things have gone astray. A: This can happen for the same reason as above. It can also happen if you have ICU support enabled. This is a bug I'm still trying to track down. + + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + - Q: My distribution has a versions of Boost and/or CMake that are too + old for Ledger. How do I build my own Boost and/or CMake binaries + that will work properly with Ledger? Thereafter, how do I configure + Ledger properly to use those newly built verisons of Boost and/or + CMake? + + A: Here's commands that one user used to make this work, for Boost + 1.51.0 on Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.x (aka Debian squeeze). It's likely + to work ok for other versions of Boost as well. YMMV on other + distributions and/or other Debian distribution versions, though. + + # Preparing and building Boost 1.51.0 + + $ cd /somewhere/you/want/to/build/boost + $ wget -N http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.51.0/boost_1_51_0.tar.bz2 + $ tar xvf boost_1_51_0.tar.bz2 + $ cd boost_1_51_0 + $ ./bootstrap.sh + $ ./b2 --build-type=complete --layout=tagged --prefix=/where/you/want/boost/installed + $ ./b2 --build-type=complete --layout=tagged --prefix=/where/you/want/boost/installed install + + # Preparing and building CMake 2.8.8 + + $ cd /somewhere/you/want/to/build/cmake + $ wget -N http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.8.tar.gz + $ tar xvf cmake-2.8.8.tar.gz + $ cd cmake-2.8.8 + $ ./configure --prefix=/where/you/want/cmake/installed/ + $ make + $ make install + + # Building Ledger using the CMake and/or Boost as installed above + + $ cd /path/to/ledger/sources + $ env PATH=/where/you/want/cmake/installed/bin:$PATH BOOST_ROOT=/where/you/want/boost/installed ./acprep --prefix=/where/you/want/ledger/installed --debug --python config + $ env PATH=/where/you/want/cmake/installed/bin:$PATH BOOST_ROOT=/where/you/want/boost/installed ./acprep --prefix=/where/you/want/ledger/installed --debug --python make + $ env PATH=/where/you/want/cmake/installed/bin:$PATH BOOST_ROOT=/where/you/want/boost/installed ./acprep --prefix=/where/you/want/ledger/installed --debug --python install |