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[Laurent Rineau <>]

On Sunday 23 September 2007 07:11:59 Lindley M French wrote:
> I'm attempting to compile CGAL, but it's not detecting Boost for some
> reason.
>
> http://www.cgal.org/platforms.html indicates that Boost doesn't have to be
> compiled; good thing, too, because I don't have the extra gigabytes
> necessary for that monster. It also says I need to set the BOOSTROOT
> environment variable, which I've done.

The use of BOOSTROOT is for Windows platforms only, if the Windows installer. 
As you use install_cgal (on MacOS X), you need to call install_cgal like 
that:

./install_cgal --BOOST_INCL_DIR /Developer/Headers/boost_1_34_1/include/

(if Boost headers are in sub-directory include/ of BOOSTROOT.)

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