Question

I have access to server where I need to build boost 1.46. How can I force bootstrap.sh to use /usr/bin/gcc-4.4. By default it uses /usr/bin/gcc and I can’t figure out how to change this

Answer 1

I cross built Boost for an ARM toolchain using something like this:

echo "using gcc : arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi : /usr/local/arm/bin/g++ ; " >> tools/build/v2/user-config.jam

You should be able to do something like this:

boost version 1.59 and above:

echo "using gcc : 4.4 : /usr/bin/g++-4.4 ; " >> tools/build/src/user-config.jam

boost version 1.58 and below:

echo "using gcc : 4.4 : /usr/bin/g++-4.4 ; " >> tools/build/v2/user-config.jam

and then build with

bjam --toolset=gcc-4.4