building master with boost

[Aaron Laws]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> 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?
>
> Kind regards,
> Carsten
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I do a similar thing, and here is what I pass to configure:

    ./configure --with-boost=/home/lmat/builds/development

(I trimmed out a dozen lines, but this should get to the gist of the
matter.)

I built boost with

#!/bin/bash
cd boostsvn
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/home/lmat/builds/development
./b2 install

I don't set BOOST_ROOT. Hopefully this helps?

In Christ,
Aaron Laws