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In future releases of ecflow 5 series, the client/server versions of ecflow do not have to be built with the same boost version. This is because ecflow 5  now uses JSON for client/server communication.

• Boost uses bjam/b2 for building the boost libs.
  bjam source is available in boost, hence we first need to build bjam itself:

  
  

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  language bash
  cd $BOOST_ROOT ./bootstrap.sh

  
  

• If you do not require the ecFlow python API, you can avoid building boost python libs by setting

  
  

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  title Disable boost python, if ecflow PYTHON api not required
  export ECF_NO_PYTHON=1

  
  

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