POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unix: compile error on Raspbian: Boost Thread library version not found: Re: compile error on Raspbian: Boost Thread library version not found

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From: William F Pokorny
Date: 24 Jun 2017 17:14:14
Message: <594ed626$1@news.povray.org>

On 11/09/2015 12:55 PM, MadKairon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to compile POV-Ray on a Raspberry Pi 2. Master branch throws this
> message when compiling and stops:
> 
> Libraries
> ---------
> 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 >= 1.38... yes
> checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... yes
> configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!
> 
> Any clues? I am kinda new to this. I always ran POV-Ray on windows.
> 
> 

Reference github issue:

https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/issues/300

User reported the following worked as a patch for the ./configure 
failure in this thread:

./configure COMPILED_BY="Mausy5043" 
--with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf

Bill P.

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