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

[Raj S <raj...@ho...>]

Sorry - here’s the name output

Linux instance-20260508-170800 6.1.0-45-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.170-1 (2026-04-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

> On 8 May 2026, at 20:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel <ed...@de...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> | 
> | I then ran 
> | 
> | apt-get install libboost-all-dev
> | 
> | (It all went in successfully. I also ran ldconfig after this for good measure).
> | 
> | Then when I download and unbox QuantLib-1.4.1.tar.gz and then run ./configure
> | 
> | At the end I keep seeing this
> | 
> | checking for Boost development files… 
> | no configure: error: Boost development files not found
> | 
> | I have checked under /usr/include and under /usr/lib and clearly boost is there (under a sub-dir).
> | 
> | 
> | This never happened before - but seems to be for release 1.42.1
> | 
> | 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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