Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> Once again I find myself having problems building povray on a new
> system...
> 
> In short: I had to upgrade my mint distro to Mint 17
> 
> So I'm trying to reconfigure a new system -- hopefully the last time I'll
> have to do it for a while since Mint 17 is supposed to be supported
> through 2019 -- and I try to build povray, and...
> 
> checking whether to link with cygwin DLL... no
> checking whether to enable static linking... no
> checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no
> checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no
> checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no
> checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no
> checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no
> checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes
> checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
> checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no
> checking for boostlib >= 1.37... yes
> checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... yes
> checking whether the boost thread library is usable... no
> configure: error: in `/home/lblackthorne/Build/povray':
> configure: error: cannot link with the boost thread library
> See `config.log' for more details
> 
> I have libboost-thread1.54-dev installed.  In fact, I installed
> libboost-thread1.54-all-dev
> 
> but, for some reason, I can't configure povray.
> 
> I think this:
> 
> configure:7849: checking whether the boost thread library is usable
> configure:7869: g++ -o conftest  -pthread  -pthread -I/usr/include 
> -L/usr/lib
> conftest.cpp   -pthread  >&5
> /tmp/ccQH1iGG.o: In function
> `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
> conftest.cpp:(.text+0x4f): undefined reference to
> `boost::system::generic_category()'
> conftest.cpp:(.text+0x5b): undefined reference to
> `boost::system::generic_category()'
> conftest.cpp:(.text+0x67): undefined reference to
> `boost::system::system_category()'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:7869: $? = 1
> configure: program exited with status 1
> 
> is the relevant section of the config.log
> 
> Help?  Please.
> 
> Regards,
> A.D.B.


The following is what I use on any OpenSuse system.
Maybe it has some pointers
You'll obviously will have to change some names/folders and such


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# filename install_povray.sh

# install script for Povray 3.7 master
# this script must be run by root

# First we need to install a bunch of libs that make
# life a whole lot easier when using/compiling Povray

zypper in -l -y automake
zypper in -l -y autoconf
zypper in -l -y boost-devel
zypper in -l -y make
zypper in -l -y gcc
zypper in -l -y gcc-c++
zypper in -l -y libjpeg8-devel
zypper in -l -y openexr-devel
zypper in -l -y openexr
zypper in -l -y libpng12-devel
zypper in -l -y libtiff-devel
zypper in -l -y libSDL-devel
zypper in -l -y libSDL2-devel
zypper in -l -y libXpm-devel
zypper in -l -y libXpm-tools
zypper in -l -y libICE-devel
zypper in -l -y libSM-devel

#prepair for unix (linux) compilation
cd /home/ger/Downloads/povray-master/unix/

# and run the prebuild script
./prebuild.sh

# run configure with the appropriate options
cd /home/ger/Downloads/povray-master
./configure COMPILED_BY="Pietje Puk <p.p### [at] gmailcom>"
--with-boost-thread=boost_thread-mt LIBS="-lboost_system -lboost_thread"


# and now for the heavy lifting part . . .
# Make and install povray

make clean  
make install



# all done
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-- 

Ger

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