Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installing gnuradio on mint - libboost problem

[Tom Rondeau]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Josh Blum <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/31/2012 11:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are trying to install gnuradio on our home laptop running mint
>> 12. ./configure for gnuradio indicates that the boost libraries could not be
>> found. After reading the READMEboost, I downloaded the latest boost,
>> boost_1_49.tar.bz2. This version of boost uses bootstrap and configure
>> to install. The boost lib files are installed:
>> /usr/local/boost_1_49_0/lib/library files
>>
>> include headers are in:
>> /usr/local/boost_1_49_0/include/boost/hpp file
>>
>> I have added:
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/boost_1_49_0/lib
>>
>> Attached are outputs from the .bootstrap and ./configure commands for 
>> gnuradio.
>> Any thoughts suggestions for getting ./configure to see the libboost files? 
>> Have we
>> correctly set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for our boost lib/include locations
>>
>
> So, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is your system's library search path, its a runtime
> thing so it wont help with configuring.
>
> You should have a boost that comes with your system's package manager.
> That should be easier to install and the configuration should be more
> automatic.
>
> But, If you are going to use a boost installed into a non-standard path,
> take a look at the m4 file here:
> http://gnuradio.org/cgit/gnuradio.git/tree/config/ax_boost_base.m4
> there seem to be options like --with-boost-libdir=
>
> -Josh


Yes, Josh is right, Mint 12 has a version of Boost that is plenty new
enough for GNU Radio (1.46.1.1; we require 1.35).

It _should_ be:

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev

That will pull in all of the Boost libraries for you and install them
into /usr/lib. (This is just a guess since I don't have a Mint machine
to test on).

Tom