Hi Michael, Thank you for the reply. Since it was mentioned in Boost doc (Getting Started) that there is no need to build it, I did not do it. But right in the next section, there are steps to build it. I followed it and built it. Then, I was able to compile thrift :).
Regards, Raghava. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Raghava, are you on windows? You're better off using cygwin and > installing boostlib as part of that. I was unsuccessful at getting it to > work by installing the boost libraries on their own. Using cygwin and > including all the recommended libraries worked properly. > > Michael Brindamour > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raghava Mutharaju [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Thrift installation error: Boost libraries cannot be detected > > Hi all, > > I am new to Thrift. I am trying to install Thrift. I downloaded Boost and > in > the Boost doc it says that no need to build it. So I didn't build it. I > want > to install Thrift under my user account, so I have given --prefix and > --exec-prefix options to configure. I have setup $BOOST_HOME (it is in my > home directory). When I run configure with the above options, I get a Boost > libraries not detected error. The following is the error. I am building > Thrift on Suse 64bit machine. How can I resolve this error? > > checking for boostlib >= 1.33.1... configure: error: We could not detect > the > boost libraries (version 1.33 or higher). If you have a staged boost > library > (still not installed) please specify $BOOST_ROOT in your environment and do > not give a PATH to --with-boost option. If you are sure you have boost > installed, then check your version number looking in <boost/version.hpp>. > See http://randspringer.de/boost for more documentation. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Raghava. >
