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Dan
Dan

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Installing Thrift on CentOS: can't find Boost 1.40 or higher

I can't shake this error when trying to install Thrift:

    ./configure
    ...
    checking for boostlib >= 1.40.0... configure: WARNING: We could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.40 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.

I'm using CentOS. As per the Thrift docs on CentOS, I've done

sudo yum install automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel

I've tried using --with-boost to no avail.

I've also done:

[]# yum install boost141
Setting up Install Process
Package boost141-1.41.0-2.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[]# yum install boost141-devel
Setting up Install Process
Package boost141-devel-1.41.0-2.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package boost141-devel-1.41.0-2.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

So now I have:

[root@domU-12-31-39-18-3D-20 include]# find / -name boost
/usr/local/bin/boost
/usr/include/boost141/boost
/usr/include/boost

Through various googling, I've found people with this error who say, 'Oh it was gcc-c++, I didn't have that installed,' but as far as I can tell, I have gcc-c++ installed:

[root@domU-12-31-39-18-3D-20 boost]# yum install gcc-c++
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Setting up Install Process
Package gcc-c++-4.1.2-46.el5_4.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3061

Answers (1)

zariok
zariok

Reputation: 21

This is an old question, but I recently hit the same thing working with a Cent 5.10 machine and building Thrift

Fixup the include files for boost141 and the build will work.

ln -s /usr/include/boost141/boost /usr/include/boost

Upvotes: 2

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