On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM, 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? > > Kind regards, > Carsten > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > 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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
