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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John Wiegley 2012-09-06 17:16:18 -07:00
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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.
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- 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