Look for "failed program was" in config.log to try to find information about what went wrong.
Tim Hughes wrote: > I cannot get thrift to compile on Fedora 13, any help would be appreciated. > From memory when this happened on Fedora 12 I needed boost-devel but that > hasn't helped this time. > > > [r...@hughestlpt thrift-instant-r953796]# ./bootstrap.sh > configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PROG_AWK wanted by: lib/erl/Makefile:80 > configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PROG_RANLIB wanted by: > lib/erl/Makefile:158 > configure.ac:61: installing `./config.guess' > configure.ac:61: installing `./config.sub' > configure.ac:26: installing `./install-sh' > configure.ac:26: installing `./missing' > compiler/cpp/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' > configure.ac: installing `./ylwrap' > [r...@hughestlpt thrift-instant-r953796]# ./configure > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p > checking for gawk... gawk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking for suffix of executables... > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking for style of include used by make... GNU > checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for g++... no > checking for c++... no > checking for gpp... no > checking for aCC... no > checking for CC... no > checking for cxx... no > checking for cc++... no > checking for cl.exe... no > checking for FCC... no > checking for KCC... no > checking for RCC... no > checking for xlC_r... no > checking for xlC... no > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no > checking whether g++ accepts -g... no > checking dependency style of g++... none > checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep > checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E > checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F > checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld > checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes > checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B > checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1966080 > checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes > checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes > checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r > checking for objdump... objdump > checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all > checking for ar... ar > checking for strip... strip > checking for ranlib... ranlib > checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for sys/types.h... yes > checking for sys/stat.h... yes > checking for stdlib.h... yes > checking for string.h... yes > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking for dlfcn.h... yes > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) no > checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) no > checking dependency style of g++... (cached) none > checking for objdir... .libs > checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no > checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC > checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes > checking if gcc static flag -static works... no > checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes > checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes > checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared > libraries... yes > checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no > checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes > checking whether to build shared libraries... yes > checking whether to build static libraries... yes > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes > checking for bison... no > checking for byacc... byacc > checking for flex... flex > checking lex output file root... lex.yy > checking lex library... -lfl > checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for boostlib >= 1.33.1... configure: error: We could not detect the > boost libraries (version 1.33 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. > > > > [r...@hughestlpt thrift-instant-r953796]# rpm -qa|grep boost > boost-system-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-serialization-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-iostreams-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-thread-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-thread-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-program-options-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-date-time-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-test-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-date-time-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-test-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-python-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-filesystem-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-filesystem-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-signals-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-python-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-wave-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-graph-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-iostreams-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-graph-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-system-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-regex-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-signals-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-devel-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-program-options-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-wave-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686 > boost-serialization-1.41.0-8.fc13.x86_64 > boost-regex-1.41.0-8.fc13.i686
