Re: [Quantlib-dev] QuantLib-1.42.1 not building on a GCP Ubuntu VM

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On 8 May 2026 at 17:22, Raj S wrote:
| I am logged into a GCM VM as root (sudo su -) and create /home/share folder in it.
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| I then ran 
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| apt-get install libboost-all-dev
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| (It all went in successfully. I also ran ldconfig after this for good measure).
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| Then when I download and unbox QuantLib-1.4.1.tar.gz and then run ./configure
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| At the end I keep seeing this
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| checking for Boost development files… 
| no configure: error: Boost development files not found
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| I have checked under /usr/include and under /usr/lib and clearly boost is there (under a sub-dir).
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| 
| This never happened before - but seems to be for release 1.42.1
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| Any ideas?

What OS are you running? You only say that you use apt -- I maintain QuantLib
for Debian (where it builds reliably) and also upload it launchpad to have
Ubuntu versions being built (mostly for my own use on Ubuntu).

edd@paul:~$ apt-cache policy libquantlib0-dev
libquantlib0-dev:
  Installed: 1.42.1-0.2404.0
  Candidate: 1.42.1-0.2404.0
  Version table:
 *** 1.42.1-0.2404.0 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/edd/misc/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.39-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/universe amd64 Packages
edd@paul:~$ 

Dirk

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