Re: [Quantlib-users] Installing QL is custom directory

[Peter C. <pca...@gm...>]

Hi, you can always move a folder to a different volume and create a
symlink in place for it.
Thanks, Peter

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 14:11, Jonathan Sweemer <sw...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hi Brian,
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> I'm not sure about Homebrew, but if you're following the instructions from the "Installing from a released version" section, then the key is to pass the external directory to the --prefix argument.
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> For example if your external directory is mounted on /mnt/external, then you would run
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> ./configure --prefix=/mnt/external ...
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> You can also use the --prefix argument when installing boost to put the headers and libs in the directory you want. See the following site for more info:
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> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_79_0/tools/build/doc/html/index.html#bbv2.installation
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> Jonathan
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>
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> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 6:12 PM Brian Smith <bri...@gm...> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am following the instructions to install QL in my Mac as explained here -
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>> https://www.quantlib.org/install/macosx.shtml
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>> However I want to install everything i.e. boost + QL in some external
>> directory as I have very limited space in my internal Mac folder.
>>
>> I tried to change the installation directory by changing the working
>> directory using `cd` command, but still end up installing them in
>> /usr/local/Cellar/boost/
>>
>> Any instruction how to install boost + QL is a specific folder will be
>> very helpful.
>>
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