Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question on Boost - could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.35 or higher)

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:40:48AM -0800, Brook Lin wrote:
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> I am trying to install gnuradio from trunk (svn co
> http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk). Before that I download boost_1_36_0
> from boost.sourceforge.net, and install boost_1_36_0 first. 
> 
> ~/boost_1_36_0$ make 
> ./tools/jam/src/bin.linuxx86_64/bjam  --user-config=user-config.jam
> --with-thread --with-date_time --with-program_options 
> warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader. 
> note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the 
> note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively. 
> warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. 
> note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam. 
> note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam. 
> note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message. 
> Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled. 
> Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information 
> (don't panic: this is a strictly optional feature). 
> ...patience... 
> ...found 840 targets... 
> ~/boost_1_36_0$ make install
> ...........
> ...skipped <p/opt/boost_1_36_0/lib>libboost_program_options-gcc42-mt-1_36.so
> for lack of /opt/boost_1_36_0/lib... 
> ...skipped <p/opt/boost_1_36_0/lib>libboost_thread-gcc42-mt-1_36.so for lack
> of /opt/boost_1_36_0/lib... 
> ...failed updating 1 target... 
> ...skipped 7008 targets... 
> Not all Boost libraries built properly. 

If you look at the first line of the output, it's probably saying
something like "Couldn't create /opt/boost_1_36_0 permission denied"

Try

  $ sudo make install

Eric