On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:48:42PM +1000, James Bird wrote:
> I ran ./configure --prefix=/sw --with-boost=/sw and got the attached 
> config.log file. There still seems to be some complaints of missing files. 
> Are these critical? 

I have looked in the log and it seems that it finished with OK, so no
critical errors were found. Note that some options may fail and they are
just not used in such case.

> I tried make install but I do not see any executable in 
> /sw/bin. That is where I should look isn't it?

And what about compilation. Can you try to do simple make and see if it
was successfull?

> On 15/01/2008, at 10:54 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:19:21PM +1000, James Bird wrote:
>>> I copied the attached to the pdf-test directory and ran:
>>>
>>> ./configure --prefix=/sw --with-boost=/sw/include
>>>
>>> and got the following error:
>>>
>>> checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0... configure: error: We could not
>>> detect the boost libraries (version 1.20 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.
>>>
>>> in the config.log file I see:
>>>
>>> configure:4557: checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0
>>> configure:4617: g++ -c -g -O2  -I/sw/include/include conftest.cpp >&5
>>> conftest.cpp:24:37: error: boost/version.hpp: No such file or directory
>>> conftest.cpp:33:12: error: #error Boost version is too old
>>> configure:4623: $? = 1
>>>
>>> I checked that /sw/include/boost/version.hpp does exist. In it I see
>>> #define BOOST_VERSION 103301.
>>>
>>> In above why is configure looking in /sw/include/include? That
>>> directory doesn't exist!
>>
>> I am not autor of boost autoconf macros. I have downloaded and reused (as
>> they are) them from the boost pages. But when I looked at the code
>> (config/boost_base.m4 file), it seems that --with-boost=DIR is expected
>> to contain libraries (if required) and headers. So I suggest to give
>> ./configure --with-boost=/sw --prefix=/sw
>> in your case.
>> Does this help?
>>
>>>
>>> James.
-- 
Michal Hocko


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