libopenraw-0.0.8 Configure error - Could not find Boost headers version >= 1.33.0

[hanche]

Configuring libopenraw ended in failure:

checking for Boost headers version >= 1.33.0... no[[BR]]
configure: error: Could not find Boost headers version >= 1.33.0

However, boost version 1.39.0_0 is installed and active. It was installed shortly before. This is all in a freshly installed macports (from dmg, hence freshly selfupdated) as a result of running “port install gimp2”.

(As a sidenote, configure is great when it works, but when it fails, I always end up tearing my hair out.)

[hanche]

Oops, I missed the “version” popup. “port version” returns 1.710, not 1.7.1.

[hanche]

I ran across the same problem while trying to install inkscape. The problem seems to be with boost, and this time I found a workaround:

# cd /opt/local/include
# ln -s boost-1_39/boost .

Now at least inkscape's configure is happy, but I don't know if this is the right workaround.

So: shift the blame from libopenraw to boost.

[hanche]

My workaround didn't help for libopenraw. That is, the configure script for libopenraw got a bit further, but it got stuck at

checking for the Boost unit_test_framework library... no
configure: error: Could not find the flags to link with Boost unit_test_framework

[hanche]

From looking a bit harder, I think I understand the issue now, though I don't know how it comes about or how to resolve it: Looking in config.log (for libopenraw) I find

ld: library not found for -lboost_unit_test_framework-gcc40-mt-1_39

But the boost package provides the library under the name libboost_unit_test_framework-xgcc40-mt-1_39.dylib instead (note the x in xgcc40).

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

What is the output of the following?

port installed boost

[hanche]

Replying to macsforever2000@…:

What is the output of the following?

port installed boost

The following ports are currently installed:
  boost @1.39.0_0 (active)

[hanche]

I went into the libopenraw work directory, changed the one occurence of "gcc40" in configure to "xgcc40", then ran

port install libopenraw

Worked like a charm. Heh.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

This appears to be a result of the recent upgrade of boost to 1.39.0. See #20012 also. So the question is whether the problem is with boost not providing the correct library names or whether this is intentional and ports dependent on boost need to be modified to use the new naming. Will check some other ports to see what they are doing (inkscape, ardour2) and see if a pattern emerges.

Ccing maintainer of boost for his comments as well.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

An update to boost that may be pertinent was just committed in r52605 so please upgrade boost and see if this makes any difference. Thanks.

[nox@…]

This problem is fixed by r52605.