Re: [Pdfedit-support] problem with pdfedit 0.4.1

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:56:48PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 
> Hey Michal!
> 
> I tried to figure how to subscribe to the
> sourceforge mailing list, but no success
> there (i.e. I didn't even figure how to 
> do that, I can browse the archives, but
> that's it)

You can subscribe at
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support

> 
> so here is my problem with compiling pdfedit
> from scratch (version 0.4.1)
> 
> [pdfedit-0.4.1]# ./configure 
> checking for g++... g++
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking limits.h usability... yes
> checking limits.h presence... yes
> checking for limits.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
> checking for _Bool... no
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for inline... inline
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
> checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0... yes
> checking whether the Boost::IOStreams library is available... yes
> configure: error: Could not link against  !
> 
> against what?
> 
> this is on a Mandriva 2008 for x86_64 (64bit)

Could you try to add --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib64 (or whatever
directory do your distribution use for 64b libraries)?
Similar problem was reported for Altlinux 64b.

> 
> TIA,
> Herbert

-- 
Michal Hocko