On Nov 1, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.ri...@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? Read http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html. Study macros/m4_ax_boost_base.m4 to see what causes that error message and what configure is looking for, then make sure that you installed boost in a way that it finds it. Did you build boost or just untar it in that directory? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
