Configure of mkvtoolnix fails under boost 1.39

[gbooker@…]

I don't know whether this is the fault of mkvtoolnix or boost, but I suspect the latter.

When I was upgrading ports, mkvtoolnix failed to configure with the following error:

...
checking for magic_open in -lmagic... no
checking for boostlib >= 1.32.0... yes
checking whether the Boost::Regex library is available... yes
checking for main in -lboost_regex-mt... no
checking for main in -lboost_regex-boost_regex-mt... no
configure: error: Could not link against boost_regex-boost_regex-mt !

I saw that i had libboost_regex-xgcc40-mt-boost_regex-mt in /opt/local/lib, but not libboost_regex-mt-boost_regex-mt (minus the xgcc40). I created a symlink, and now mkvtools builds just fine.

Should boost be creating a symlink or should mkvtoolnix have a smarter configure?

[ruud@…]

This is caused by the rename of libboost_regex-mt.dylib to libboost_regex-xgcc40-mt.dylib. Does the boost-maintainer know how this should be fixed?

[sanchom (Sancho McCann)]

I'm no longer the maintainer, but we used to create symlinks named like "libboost_regex-mt.dylib" that pointed to the compiler-version-named instances of the libraries. I'd suggest to continue doing this.

Replying to ruud@…:

This is caused by the rename of libboost_regex-mt.dylib to libboost_regex-xgcc40-mt.dylib. Does the boost-maintainer know how this should be fixed?

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Ccing boost's maintainer. This is similar to #20001.

[gbooker@…]

I removed my symlinks and tried boost 1.39.0_2. This can be closed as fixed now. Thanks.