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[Laurent Rineau <>]

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 15:35:55 Segall, Edward wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attemting to install CGAL 3.3.1 in an environment where BOOST is in
> a non-standard location. Reading the top of the install_cgal script, I
> see a mechanism that appears to be designed to support this scenario.
> Under "advanced options", there is:
>
>   --PACKAGENAME_INCL_DIR <dir>
>                Add \"-I<dir>\" to CPPFLAGS. The valid PACKAGENAMEs in
> this
>                context are BOOST, BOOST_PROGRAM_OPTIONS, BOOST_BIMAP,
> X11,
>                GMP, GMPXX, MPFR, ZLIB, BLAS, LAPACK, LEDA, LEDAWIN,
> OPENGL,
>                QT, TAUCS
>
> To me, this says "if you specify --BOOST_INCL_DIR <dir> on the
> invocation line, then \"-I<dir>\" will be added to the command when the
> C++ compiler is invoked."
>
> I tried this but it did not work.

I fully agree with your explaination: install_cgal seems buggy. That bug have 
been reported last week by a MacOS user too.

Here is the suggestion I made for him (adapted to your case), you can use 
another feature of install_cgal to workaround that bug, by typing (all in the 
line):

CPPFLAGS="-Ih:
\downloaded\BOOST\boost_1_34_0" ./install_cgal 
--prefix=prefix=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/CGAL

Best regards.

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