We only ship a partial boost library, afaik boost-python is not included. Installing boost system-wide might work, but I've also had issues with conflicting versions. But its worth a shot, for starters.
Really, we should just ship all of boost. See also Martin Raum's recent post... On Thursday, February 6, 2014 11:40:51 AM UTC, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > > Hi sage-devel, > > Since the presentation of Vaucanson 2.0 at a Sage meeting in Paris, I am > trying to install it and use it from sage. > > [1] http://wiki.sagemath.org/GroupeUtilisateursParis > [2] https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/Vaucanson/Vaucanson2b3 > > I installed the experimental package gcc-4.8.1.spkg because they say "GNU > g++ 4.7 cannot compiler Vaucanson 2 at all". > > I then run ./configure in sage -sh and get an error while linking with > Boost python. Any clue how I can help to find the flags? > > Thanks, > > Sébastien > > [...] > checking for Boost headers version >= 1.49.0... yes > checking for Boost's header version... 1_52 > checking for the toolset name used by Boost for g++... xgcc48 -xgcc > checking boost/python.hpp usability... yes > checking boost/python.hpp presence... yes > checking for boost/python.hpp... yes > checking for the Boost python library... no > configure: error: cannot find the flags to link with Boost python > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
