Am 24.06.2013 14:50, schrieb Jonathan:

>> Did you install the libboost-thread1.49-dev package ?
>
> That's where the problem was.  Apparently I had libboost-thread1.50-dev and a
> bunch of other ~~1.50 stuff installed, which isn't what POV-Ray is looking for.
> I just let apt-get do its thing and hoped I didn't clobber my system:

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>> IIRC, you might need LIBS="-lboost_system" on the configure line to have
>> the boost_thread-mt usable.
> Nope, didn't need to use that...
>> Do not ask why.

In theory and an ideal world, things should work fine with the 1.50 
package just as it does with 1.49; POV-Ray doesn't ask for any 
particular boost version by default, and it shouldn't matter which of 
the two boost versions you have installed.

Unfortunately our world is not ideal; it appears that the boost 
developers have made a breaking change in the boost_thread library, to 
the effect that it no longer works without also linking in the 
boost_system library - which the POV-Ray makefile doesn't yet do by itself.

So, in theory and a non-ideal world, LIBS="-lboost_system" might indeed 
get the thing working with boost 1.50 as well. Not sure what happens in 
practice though :-P

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