Re: [Help-source-highlight] Configure error on 3.1.4

[Peter Johansson]

Hi Gary,

On 1/25/11 11:32 AM, Gary Funck wrote:
> As noted above, the autoconf macro is looking for
> '/usr/lib/libboost_regex*.so*' and finds none.
>
> 3) Search for the boost_regex library on local system.
>
>      $ ls -1 /*{,/*}/libboost_regex*.so*
>      ls: cannot access /*/libboost_regex*.so*: No such file or directory
>      /usr/lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so
>      /usr/lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so.1.44.0
>      /usr/lib64/libboost_regex.so
>      /usr/lib64/libboost_regex.so.1.44.0
>
> At this point, the easiest work around is to:
>
>     # INSTALL THE 32-BIT BOOST REGEX LIBRARY
>     $ sudo yum install boost-regex.i686
>
> And 'configure' will run without errors.
>
> This seems to work, but may not be the best work-around,
> however ...
>
> The longer term fix is to correct the library look up
> in m4/ax_boost_regex.m4 so that it uses a more general
> scheme to locate the shared library. Perhaps there is
> already an AC_... function to do that job?
>
> Or there may also be a problem in the way that the configure
> script is setting BOOST_LDFLAGS.  The value that it
> comes up with is: /usr/lib, and it should be /usr/lib64.
Where `ax_boost_regex.m4' checks for the library is decided by the 
variable $BOOST_LDFLAGS. This variable is set in macro file 
`ax_boost_base.m4' and I know there have been recent patches in this 
file fixing issues about finding stuff in lib64. If you havent already, 
I would suggest you try updating `ax_boost_base.m4' as well? It might 
fix the issue.

Cheers,
Peter