Boost170_devel installed; boost_system not found

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Random porting project I’ve been working on has this configure error:

~/src> ./configure
...
...
checking for boostlib >= 1.60.0... yes
ok
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
configure: error: Could not find a version of the boost_system library!

Latest nightly and full-sync. boost170_devel and dependencies installed. Also tried various other versions of boostxxx_devel. Where should I start looking? Are there some already ported projects using Boost::System that I could compare notes with to track down the issue? I’m not asking for the solution. I’d like a pointer in the right direction to find the problem. This makes little sense to me as immediately after it says it is available, it then says it can’t find it.

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Usually configure scripts create a config.log file with more details about what they are doing (commands they run, files they try to compile, etc). You can check there if there was a compilation error or some other hint about what went wrong.

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You could however name it if it is not a top secret project, maybe somebody can check it.

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Okay, I’ll let the doge out of the bag. :sweat_smile:

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Seems to want an objective c++ compiler. One of their lead devs (dogecoin) suggested I should put this effort aside for now and refocused me on getting Bitcoin to build instead.

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You can try to enable the objective c++ backend in the gcc recipe and rebuild it. Maybe boost will need also a rebuild.

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