Getting Started
+ Getting Started
Use the latest version of this Getting Started guide
-The Boost website version of this Getting Started guide may -have undated information, such as the location of additional installers +
The Boost website version of this Getting Started guide may +have updated information, such as the location of additional installers or improved installation procedures, so you might want use that version if you've got an Internet connection available.
Welcome
+Welcome
Welcome to the Boost libraries! By the time you've completed this tutorial, you'll be at least somewhat comfortable with the contents of a Boost distribution and how to go about using it.
What's Here
+What's Here
This document is designed to be an extremely gentle introduction, so we included a fair amount of material that may already be very familiar to you. To keep things simple, we also left out some @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ information intermediate and advanced users will probably want. At the end of this document, we'll refer you on to resources that can help you pursue these topics further.
Preliminaries
+Preliminaries
We use one typographic convention that might not be immediately obvious: italic text in examples is meant as a descriptive placeholder for something else, usually information that you'll @@ -47,16 +47,16 @@ provide. For example:
Here you're expected to imagine replacing the text “your name” with your actual name.
Ready?
+Ready?
Let's go!
to install somewhere else. Also, consider using the ---show-libraries and --with-libraries= options to limit the +--show-libraries and --with-library_name options to limit the long wait you'll experience if you build everything. Finally,
$ ./bjam install diff --git a/getting_started/unix-variants.rst b/getting_started/unix-variants.rst index 1444cb9..a0af629 100644 --- a/getting_started/unix-variants.rst +++ b/getting_started/unix-variants.rst @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ least use **$** ./bootstrap.sh **--prefix=**\ *path*\ /\ *to*\ /\ *installation*\ /\ *prefix* to install somewhere else. Also, consider using the -``--show-libraries`` and ``--with-libraries=`` options to limit the +``--show-libraries`` and ``--with-``\ *library_name* options to limit the long wait you'll experience if you build everything. Finally, .. parsed-literal::