"Calvin" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile the Unix beta sources under Tiger and I've installed the
> > boost libraries, the configure is detecting them, but I keep getting a
> > configuration error "Could not link against boost_thread"
> >
> > I have to use --with-boost=/users/mac just to get it to recognize that boost is
> > installed and I've been trying to use --with-boost-thread in just about every
> > combination.
> >
> > I tried specifying BOOST_ROOT, but it doesn't work.
> >
> > my pre-compiled thread libraries seem to be in /users/mac/lib
> >
> > Being more of a GUI user until OS X came along, I'm not what you would call
> > conversant with Terminal, so if anyone could help me
> > with this problem, I'd be grateful.
> >
> > A.D.B
>
> Modern versions of boost on OSX seem to want to compile their boost_thread as
> boost_thread-mt. Try something like this:
>
> ../configure COMPILED_BY="me### [at] myemailcom" --with-boost-thread=boost_thread-mt

Tried it.  No joy.

A.D.B

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