Re: [Monotone-devel] Compiling from source

[Ethan Blanton]

Zbynek Winkler spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Ok, the problem seems to be boost-1.32. It is linked with libstdc++.so.5 
> but gcc-4.0 uses libstdc++.so.6 so the resulting executable links to 
> both and that seems to be the problem :(
> 
> So, I installed boost-dev (1.33) from debian unstable and after a couple 
> of recompiles everything seems to work (I have not run make check yet).
> 
> May I suggest an improvement for the configure stuff? When checking for 
> the required boost libraries - could it also try to run the compiled 
> executables to make sure it actually works?

This is generally not something which one would want to do, as it
breaks cross-compiles.  (The check can of course simply be turned off
for cross compiles, but ...)

Ethan

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