Blast! It’s Boost! (Slackware64 and Deluge / libtorrent-rasterbar)
by BenV on Aug.29, 2010, under Software
Obviously I didn’t mention this issue enough yet since google didn’t return my blog for this issue as well as I’d like.
Today’s task with a problem: upgrading to Deluge 1.3.0-rc2 from rc1. Just for reference, I ran into this problem before. Since we’re upgrading Deluge, I’m upgrading the torrent library first. The latest version seems to be libtorrent-rasterbar version 0.15.2.
The problem:
# Some configure junk and then:
Checking for boost libraries:
checking for boostlib >= 1.36... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
configure: error: Boost.System library not found. Try using --with-boost-system=lib
… don’t you just hate it when your computer hints you to try something trivial?
Well configure, since you know it all so well. .. WHY DON’T YOU FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF?! It’s not as if we’re talking about dangerous operations like formatting harddrives here…..
Just make it work, that’s what it’s for!
Anyway, we try again with the configure suggestion:
# Some configure junk and then:
Checking for boost libraries:
checking for boostlib >= 1.36... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
checking for exit in -llib... no
checking for exit in -lboost_system-lib... no
configure: error: Could not link against boost_system-lib !
Raah, fine, we’ll dig into the config.log again.
configure:15511: gcc -o conftest -lpthread -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib conftest.c -lboost_system-lib >&5
conftest.c:33: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'exit'
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.4.4/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system-lib
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Note that it runs with -L/usr/lib. Since this is Slackware64 it has a /usr/lib64, but no (useful) /usr/lib.
So we try again, this time telling it where boost is supposed to be.
# Configure rubbish
Checking for boost libraries:
checking for boostlib >= 1.36... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
checking for exit in -llib... no
checking for exit in -lboost_system-lib... no
configure: error: Could not link against boost_system-lib !
…. *RAGE*…. …. …
Finally I calm down and again check the config.log, find out that now correctly passes the libdir:
configure:15511: gcc -o conftest -lpthread -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib64 conftest.c -lboost_system-lib >&5
conftest.c:33: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'exit'
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.4.4/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system-lib
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Checking what boost garbage I have wasting space in my lib64 dir, I find:
/usr/lib64/libboost_system.so
/usr/lib64/libboost_system.so.1.42.0
# Note that there's tons more boost junk here, just not boost_system junk :)
Guess the lib option wasn’t as great after all. We try again:
# Configure rubbish
Checking for boost libraries:
checking for boostlib >= 1.36... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_system... yes
checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_filesystem... yes
checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_thread... yes
Yay, success. Hopefully next time I’ll find this post before I anger myself with Boost again.
(and obviously the blame here goes at least partially to the developer of the configure.am script)
Oh, Deluge still works like a charm btw, thumbs up.
December 6th, 2010 on 20:23
And once again, I angered myself. Why don’t I listen to myself? :-p
Rasterbar libtorrent 0.15.4 still needs the boost libdir option.