Did you try installing the boost-devel package? I would take a look at config.log after configure fails to try to determine what the problem is. If you can't make sense of it, email it in, and I'll have a look.
--David Andrew Farley wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've been wrestling with getting thrift installed on a minimal install > of CentOS 5.2 64-bit. With the default boost package from the Cent > repo it provides 1.33.1, the minimum requirements for thrift but the > thrift ./configure script still complains about it not being valid. > > I went down this route once before with another CentOS virtual > machine, ended up having to manually compile and upgrade glib to > install the latest boost, which then broke a bunch of other things > which I started trying to recompile, and ended up failing miserably. > I scrapped that VM and am starting over. > > So, anyone have instructions/advice for getting it compiled/working on > CentOS 5.2? > > Or, instead of continuing to wrestle with compiling thrift, does > anyone have or know where I can grab a thrift CentOS 5.2/RHEL4 RPM? > I'm thus far unable to find it in RPM form and I have to keep this > install as clean as possible because I will be replicating it via > puppet to 30+ machines and soon thereafter, many, many more. So, RPMs > will be simple, recompiling a ton of packages and/or making my own > RPMs will not be as easy/simple. > > Thanks, > > Andrew >
