building master with boost

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 01 November 2014 19:42:59 Carsten Rinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> to check if some "front-porting" is working, I tried to compile on the
> master branch - for the first time.
> 
> It told me that boost is missing:
> 
> checking for boostlib >= 1.48.0... configure: We could not detect the
> boost libraries (version 1.48 or higher). If you have a staged boost
> library (still not installed) please specify $BOOST_ROOT in your
> environment and do not give a PATH to --with-boost option.  If you are
> sure you have boost installed, then check your version number looking
> in <boost/version.hpp>. See http://randspringer.de/boost for more
> documentation.
> configure: error: Boost 1.48.0 or later was not found and is required
> to build GnuCash
> 
> So I downloaded Boost 1.56.0 into "/opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0".
> 
> Running configure with an environment variable
> echo $BOOST_ROOT -> /opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0
> does not change anything.
> 
> Running configure with
> --with-boost "/opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0"
> results in:
> checking build system type... Invalid configuration
> `/opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0': machine `/opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0'
> not recognized
> configure: error: /bin/bash ../config.sub /opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0
> failed
> 
> What can I do?
Would
--with-boost="/opt/lib/boost/boost_1_56_0"
work ? It seems to me there should be an "=" sign after the option.

Geert