gource: Could not link against -lGL !

[rudloff@…]

Hello,

I get an error when I try to install Gource on Mac OS 10.7:

checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking for OpenGL/gl.h... yes
checking for OpenGL library... -framework OpenGL
checking for GL/glu.h... yes
checking for OpenGL/glu.h... yes
checking for OpenGL Utility library... yes
checking for varargs GLU tesselator callback function type... no
checking for sdl-config... /Users/prudloff/opt/bin/sdl-config
checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.10... yes
checking for freetype-config... /Users/prudloff/opt/bin/freetype-config
checking for FreeType -- version >= 9.0.3... yes
checking for IMG_LoadPNG_RW in -lSDL_image... yes
checking for IMG_LoadJPG_RW in -lSDL_image... yes
checking for pcre_compile in -lpcre... yes
checking for glewInit in -lGLEW... yes
checking for boostlib >= 1.46... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
configure: error: Could not link against -lGL !

Regards,

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

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[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

hm, that's strange for multiple reasons: first, because it works successfully for me, and second, because the error message about the missing library is not even the library that the macro that it is part of (AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM) should be checking for... while AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM may be relatively badly written for an autoconf macro (it assumes that the user has a tac executable in their path, for example), I still do not see how that translates into it checking for -lGL instead of -lboost_filesystem-mt... anyways, I will attach a diff between our config.log files...

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

diff between OP's config.log and a successful one

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[petrrr]

phw retired, #45339.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #56808. I think we solve this by telling the configure script where boost is, rather than letting it assume it's in one of the common locations the configure script checks for. Both this ticket and the duplicate occurred on systems using non-default MacPorts prefixes.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 414cccd4690e3a7833f6104c3812a148356e318a/macports-ports (master):

gource: Specify path to boost

Fixes build failure when MacPorts is installed in a nonstandard prefix.

Revbump to ensure it wasn't linked against the wrong boost.

Closes: #43608