I have RHEL 5.2, with Boost 1.33 installed. I downloaded boost_1_44_0.tar.bz2. and built it. On completion it showed:
The Boost C++ Libraries were successfully built!
The following directory should be added to compiler include paths:
/home/dfe/Archive/boost_1_44_0
The following directory should be added to linker library paths:
/home/dfe/Archive/boost_1_44_0/stage/lib
There are always three steps to install software on Linux systems:
You likely did the equivalent of make
but did not do the equivalent of make install
. You need to run
sudo ./b2 install
after running ./b2