libopenraw-0.0.8 Configure error - Cound not find Boost headers version >= 1.33.0

[hanche]

Configuring libopenraw ended in failure:

checking for Boost headers version >= 1.33.0... no[[BR]]
configure: error: Could not find Boost headers version >= 1.33.0

However, boost version 1.39.0_0 is installed and active. It was installed shortly before. This is all in a freshly installed macports (from dmg, hence freshly selfupdated) as a result of running “port install gimp2”.

(As a sidenote, configure is great when it works, but when it fails, I always end up tearing my hair out.)

[hanche]

Oops, I missed the “version” popup. “port version” returns 1.710, not 1.7.1.

[hanche]

I ran across the same problem while trying to install inkscape. The problem seems to be with boost, and this time I found a workaround:

# cd /opt/local/include
# ln -s boost-1_39/boost .

Now at least inkscape's configure is happy, but I don't know if this is the right workaround.

So: shift the blame from libopenraw to boost.

[hanche]

My workaround didn't help for libopenraw. That is, the configure script for libopenraw got a bit further, but it got stuck at

checking for the Boost unit_test_framework library... no
configure: error: Could not find the flags to link with Boost unit_test_framework

[hanche]

From looking a bit harder, I think I understand the issue now, though I don't know how it comes about or how to resolve it: Looking in config.log (for libopenraw) I find

ld: library not found for -lboost_unit_test_framework-gcc40-mt-1_39

But the boost package provides the library under the name libboost_unit_test_framework-xgcc40-mt-1_39.dylib instead (note the x in xgcc40).

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

What is the output of the following?

port installed boost