Bug 634066

Summary:	media-gfx/povray-3.7.0.0-r1: configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrey Grozin <grozin>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrewammerlaan
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	log config.log emerge --info output

Description Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2017-10-12 04:26:44 UTC

Trying to re-emerge media-gfx/povray-3.7.0.0-r1 after upgrading boost to 1.65.0

checking for boostlib >= 1.37 (103700)... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/povray-3.7.0.0-r1/work/povray-3.7.0.0/config.log
 * ERROR: media-gfx/povray-3.7.0.0-r1::gentoo failed (configure phase):
 *   econf failed
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line  124:  Called src_configure
 *             environment, line 2866:  Called econf 'COMPILED_BY=Portage (Gentoo Linux) on elrond.inp.nsk.su' '--disable-debug' '--enable-io-restrictions' '--without-openexr' '--with-libtiff=/usr/lib' '--with-libsdl=/usr/lib' '--with-x=/usr/lib' '--disable-static' '--without-libmkl' '--disable-pipe' '--disable-strip' '--disable-optimiz' '--disable-optimiz-arch'
 *        phase-helpers.sh, line  665:  Called __helpers_die 'econf failed'
 *   isolated-functions.sh, line  117:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *              die "$@"

Comment 1 Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2017-10-12 04:29:53 UTC

Created attachment 498414 [details]
log

Comment 2 Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2017-10-12 04:31:16 UTC

Created attachment 498416 [details]
config.log

Comment 3 Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2017-10-12 04:33:10 UTC

Created attachment 498418 [details]
emerge --info output

Comment 4 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-11-01 19:52:45 UTC

Try to install the latest version of sys-devel/boost-m4.

Comment 5 Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2017-11-03 05:53:41 UTC

(In reply to Christoph Junghans from comment #4)
> Try to install the latest version of sys-devel/boost-m4.
I already have the latest version, 0.4_p20160328. Just to be sure, I've re-emerged sys-devel/boost-m4 (fine) and tried media-gfx/povray-3.7.0.0-r1. It failed in the same way.

Comment 6 Heiko Schäfer 2018-02-02 06:41:00 UTC

Quick & Dirty workaround:

append

--with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib \
--with-boost-system=boost_system \
--with-boost-thread=boost_thread

to econf in src_configure

Comment 7 Guilherme Amadio gentoo-dev

2018-06-08 12:20:38 UTC

Could you please try again? I added a fix for prefix that probably fixes this too.