building master with boost

Carsten Rinke carsten.rinke at gmx.de
Mon Nov 3 16:31:01 EST 2014


Thanks for all feedback.

Finally I managed:
- I installed the library with the help from John and Aaron
- and I also used the "=" as indicated by Geert.

-> Works all fine now :-)

Carsten

On 03.11.2014 16:50, Aaron Laws wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de 
> <mailto: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



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