在Debian上使用AX_BOOST_BASE找不到增强

Question

I installed libboost1.54-dev and libboost-filesystem1.54-dev on Debian testing and try to run ./configure to find the library to link with. I used AX_BOOST_BASE[1.53] in configure.ac file and boost libraries are installed in

$ ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_*
libboost_filesystem.a          libboost_filesystem.so         libboost_filesystem.so.1.54.0
....

When I run ./configure , the outputs

checking for boostlib >= 1.53... yes
checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!

The output in config.log

configure:17360: checking for boostlib >= 1.53
configure:17431: g++ -c -g -O2  -I/usr/include conftest.cpp >&5
configure:17431: $? = 0
configure:17433: result: yes
configure:17614: checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available
configure:17638: g++ -c -g -O2  -I/usr/include conftest.cpp >&5
configure:17638: $? = 0
configure:17652: result: yes
configure:17806: error: Could not find a version of the library!

At the last, ldconfig looks good.

$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu.conf
# Multiarch support
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

How could I run ./configure successfully without using ./configure --with-boost-lib=<PATH> ?

Answer 1

Looks like there is a bug somewhere (autoconf?) and until it fixed there are two options:

Either add --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) to "debian/rules" as described in wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS (for Debian packages)

or to pass --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) to configure (manually).

See also dpkg-architecture(1) .

Note: FTBFS stands for "Fails To Build From Source".