Lucas, There are problems with Boost 1.77.0 (see https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12817). The problems are in Boost itself and there is nothing we can do about it. Use Boost 1.76 instead.
Best, Bruno On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 3:18:03 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to install dealii on Ubuntu 20.04. For this, I manually > installed the latest Boost library first (Boost 1.77.0) as described here > <https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_77_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html>. > > It looks like dealii has found this external boost library, and is set up > to install dealii with external dependencies on boost. However, when I try > to install dealii I get a big error message with the following highlighted > in red: > > "error: static assertion failed: This operation is not or not yet > implemented." > "BOOST_GEOMETRY_STATIC_ASSERT" > "error: ‘apply’ is not a member of > ‘boost::geometry::dispatch::distance<dealii::Point<1>, dealii::Point<1>, > boost::geometry::strategies::distance::detail::comparable<boost::geometry::strategies::distance::cartesian<> > > >, boost::geometry::point_tag, boost::geometry::point_tag, > boost::geometry::strategy_tag_distance_point_point, false>’" > > Installing with the bundled boost library seems to work, but I would > really rather have the external boost library to use. > > Any suggestions on what the problem might be? Could it be that I installed > boost incorrectly? Is there any other information that I can give to help > with debugging? > > Kind regards, > Lucas > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/46514ce4-2436-4112-9287-fd2ef5ac85e4n%40googlegroups.com.
