Hi(gh)!

After (guess what) another system crash and re-installation of Linux 
(Debian aptosid "Geras", kernel 2.6.37) I once more tried to compile 3.7 
RC3 (I refrained from using the latest version, as it needs at least 
kernel 2.6.8).

So I followed the instructions in INSTALL, did ./configure 
COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>" (of course with my name and 
e-mail address)... after installing libboost1.50-dev all went fine... 
except for that nasty message towards the end:

configure: error: in 
`/media/disk1part11/software/downloads/Raytracing/povray-3.7.0.RC3':
configure: error: cannot link with the boost thread library

What went wrong? The configure routine referred me to config.log for 
more details - but I simply cannot make out where to look in that huge 
data sheet!

The first error showing up there is a wrong call of gcc - with -V 
instead of -v! How can I get rid of this? Is my gcc outdated?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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Hello,

Le 04/12/2012 23:47, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann a écrit :
> Hi(gh)!
> 
> After (guess what) another system crash and re-installation of Linux
> (Debian aptosid "Geras", kernel 2.6.37) I once more tried to compile 3.7
> RC3 (I refrained from using the latest version, as it needs at least
> kernel 2.6.8).

Huh ? I do not get it (related to the kernel version: 2.6.37 is further
than 2.6.8, so why refrain ?) Why not using 3.7RC6 ? Or are you talking
of the version of something else ?
(Ubuntu is at kernel 3.2.0... even for the long term stable release
(April 2012))

> 
> So I followed the instructions in INSTALL, did ./configure
> COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>" (of course with my name and
> e-mail address)... after installing libboost1.50-dev all went fine...

There is at least one known issue appearing with boost1.50 for povray
3.7 (all sources so far): they renamed some boost::TIME_UTC as
boost::TIME_UTC_ , and of course povray uses it!


> except for that nasty message towards the end:
> 
> configure: error: in
> `/media/disk1part11/software/downloads/Raytracing/povray-3.7.0.RC3':
> configure: error: cannot link with the boost thread library
> 
> What went wrong? The configure routine referred me to config.log for
> more details - but I simply cannot make out where to look in that huge
> data sheet!
> 
> The first error showing up there is a wrong call of gcc - with -V
> instead of -v! How can I get rid of this? Is my gcc outdated?

That is just some blind tests about getting the version of the compiler.
the configure try --version, -v, -V, -qversion, but that error is not
really fatal.

Look further down the config.log file.

And did you read on

> http://www.povray.org/beta/source/

The note:

Note: Some users on 64-bit platforms have reported that adding
 --with-boost-thread=boost_thread-mt to ./configure is needed
to get a successful compilation.

Have a nice day.

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