boost 1.34.1 (port install boost failure)

[rob@…]

Will cut and paste an install run below. Note that the Makefile generated for boost has what looks like another commands output stuck in it.

[rarnold@Macintosh examples]$ port search boost
boost                          devel/boost    1.34.1       Collection of portable C++ source libraries
boost-build                    devel/boost-build 2.0-m11      Build system for large project software construction
boost-jam                      devel/boost-jam 3.1.15       Boost.Jam (BJam) is a build tool based on FTJam
[rarnold@Macintosh examples]$ sudo port install boost
Password:
--->  Fetching boost-jam
--->  Attempting to fetch boost-jam-3.1.15.tgz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for boost-jam
--->  Extracting boost-jam
--->  Configuring boost-jam
--->  Building boost-jam
--->  Staging boost-jam into destroot
--->  Installing boost-jam 3.1.15_0
--->  Activating boost-jam 3.1.15_0
--->  Cleaning boost-jam
--->  Fetching gmake
--->  Attempting to fetch make-3.81.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gmake
--->  Extracting gmake
--->  Configuring gmake
--->  Building gmake with target all
--->  Staging gmake into destroot
--->  Installing gmake 3.81_0
--->  Activating gmake 3.81_0
--->  Cleaning gmake
--->  Fetching boost
--->  Attempting to fetch boost_1_34_1.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for boost
--->  Extracting boost
--->  Configuring boost
--->  Building boost with target all
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/work/boost_1_34_1" && gmake all " returned error 2
Command output: Makefile:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
[rarnold@Macintosh examples]$ cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/work/boost_1_34_1"
[rarnold@Macintosh boost_1_34_1]$ ls
Jamfile.v2            boost                 doc                   people                tools
Jamrules              boost-build.jam       google_logo_40wht.png project-root.jam      user-config.jam
LICENSE_1_0.txt       boost.css             index.htm             regression            wiki
Makefile              boost.png             libs                  rst.css
README                configure             more                  status
[rarnold@Macintosh boost_1_34_1]$ gmake all
Makefile:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.
[rarnold@Macintosh boost_1_34_1]$ more Makefile 
BJAM=./tools/jam/src/
...skipped bjam for lack of ...
...failed updating 1 target.../bjam
BJAM_CONFIG=
PREFIX=/opt/local
EPREFIX=/opt/local
LIBDIR=/opt/local/lib
INCLUDEDIR=/opt/local/include
LIBS= --without-python

all: .dummy
        @echo "$(BJAM) $(BJAM_CONFIG) --user-config=user-config.jam $(LIBS)"
        @$(BJAM) $(BJAM_CONFIG) --user-config=user-config.jam $(LIBS) || \
        echo "Not all Boost libraries built properly."

clean: .dummy
        rm -rf bin.v2

distclean: clean
        rm -rf Makefile config.log

check: .dummy
        @cd status && ../$(BJAM) $(BJAM_CONFIG) --user-config=../user-config.jam || echo "Some Boost regression tests failed.
 This is normal for many compilers."

install: .dummy
        @echo "$(BJAM) $(BJAM_CONFIG) --user-config=user-config.jam --prefix=$(PREFIX) --exec-prefix=$(EPREFIX) --libdir=$(LI
BDIR) --includedir=$(INCLUDEDIR) $(LIBS) install"
        @$(BJAM) $(BJAM_CONFIG) --user-config=user-config.jam --prefix=$(PREFIX) --exec-prefix=$(EPREFIX) --libdir=$(LIBDIR) 
--includedir=$(INCLUDEDIR) $(LIBS) install || echo "Not all Boost libraries built properly."

.dummy:

[rarnold@Macintosh boost_1_34_1]$ 

[rob@…]

fyi, after doing a port clean boost, and a port -d install boost, it got past the above point. Conjecture to me is that one of the install steps is doing a patch, and is written wrong and assumes something already there? Whatever the case, looks like it is going to work now, but that something is not quite right in the port.

[ryandesign@…]

Cc'ing the port's maintainer.

[yunzheng.hu@…]

somehow this only happens when 'boost-jam' gets installed by the dependency graph of the 'boost' port. so installing 'boost-jam' first and then doing a install of 'boost' seem to work fine. I have no idea why this happens though.

[dane.springmeyer@…]

I've been attempting to build boost over and over recently. Each time I run into this problem. Without boost-jam installed I attempt to install boost and the build bails at the point mentioned above. Then I uninstall and clean both, installing boost-jam on its own first and then boost. Then things work fine. I wish this were easy to fix.

[jmr@…]

Duplicate of #13714.

[anonymous]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted