HI,

Installing libboost-all-dev did the trick for me.

Thanks,
Nikhil

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Kyriakos Zarifis <kyr.zari...@gmail.com>wrote:

> and I'd try removing the existing libboost package first (looks it's there)
> before reinstalling. That's to avoid getting the 'already installed' message
> in case of a broken installation
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:04 AM, kk yap <yap...@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nikhil,
>>
>> More specifically, you can try libbooost-dev, libboost-filesystem-dev
>> and libboost-test-dev.
>>
>> Regards
>> KK
>>
>> On 12 July 2010 03:55, James "Murphy" McCauley <jam...@nau.edu> wrote:
>> > I am guessing this is a bug in the autoconf boost detection code.  I'd
>> > try the following:
>> > First, apt-get install libboost-all-dev
>> > If that doesn't work, try manually setting the boost paths with the
>> > appropriate configure options (--with-boost=<path> and friends).
>> > If that still doesn't work, could you post your config.log (or the tail
>> > end of it anyway)?
>> >
>> > -- Murphy
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 01:50 -0700, Nikhil Handigol wrote:
>> >> I recently tried a fresh NOX installation from the noxrepo git repo on
>> >> Ubuntu 10.04.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "./configure --with-python=yes" fails with an error:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "configure: error: Could not link against  !"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The last few lines of the output are:
>> >> checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
>> >> checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
>> >> checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes
>> >> checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
>> >> checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
>> >> checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
>> >> libraries... yes
>> >> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
>> >> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
>> >> checking for fdatasync... yes
>> >> checking for ppoll... yes
>> >> checking for boostlib >= 1.34.1... yes
>> >> checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
>> >> configure: error: Could not link against  !
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This is most likely not a NOX problem, as I have compiled the source
>> >> multiple times in the past, but on Debian machines. If anyone has
>> >> encountered a similar problem on Ubuntu and managed to fix it, please
>> >> let me know.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Nikhil
>> >>
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