jhu <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> It would be helpful if the source was self contained like the 3.6 source with
> the needed libraries distributed also. Makes compiling a lot less of a hassle.

  That can pose some practical problems. Some libraries might come with their
own unique licenses, and including statically-linked library source code in
the distribution increases the size of both the distribution package and the
compiled binary. Some users might also want to make the choice of whether
to compile against the library already installed on the system or the one
which comes with the distribution.

  That being said, at least the Windows version of the POV-Ray source code
might be distributed with the necessary boost libraries included because
different versions of boost can be a PitA to compile for different versions
of Visual Studio, as boost isn't very well integrated into Windows nor the
Visual Studio compiling pipeline.

  Anyways, installing boost into a modern linux distro isn't usually a
problem. Most, of not all, modern distros have a package manager and a
standard repository with boost pre-compiled in it, and installing it is
a question of a couple of mouse clicks or writing a single command on the
command line, and in most cases it will just work afterwards without any
further configuration. The problems that the original poster is facing are
caused by his attempts to bypass the package manager and trying to compile
and install boost manually.

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                                                          - Warp

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