I am building from what is current in trunk, using a clean chroot. I'm also not saying that it shouldn't depend on boost, I just brought up the question as to why it depended on the MPI parallelized version of boost graph, since that unnecessary drug in openmpi as a dep. On Nov 12, 2012 12:54 PM, "Alexander Rødseth" <rodseth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > When looking at the output from ./configure --help, there is no > mention of boost at all. > However, even after removing --with-boost, ./configure insists that it > should look for boost, and fails with this message: > > ./configure: line 16421: syntax error near unexpected token `1.34' > ./configure: line 16421: `BOOST_REQUIRE(1.34)' > > Which version of pdns were you building and which version of boost do > you have installed? > > If upstream insists that boost should be a dependency for pdns, it > would not be The Arch Way to disable it, even if it can be argued that > the library is more advanced than strictly needed. > > Please report this as a bug or feature request to the pdns developers > if you think that they should change their ways and not depend on > boost by default. > > -- > Sincerely, > Alexander Rødseth > xyproto / TU >
