Bugzilla – Bug 1270
"Checking boost includes" weirdness
Last modified: 2011-09-28 10:45:27 UTC
This happens both on Linux and FreeBSD without boost includes installed (note the lack of yes or no): Checking for NSC location : ../nsc (guessed) Checking for library dl : yes Checking for NSC supported architecture i686 : ok Checking for header sys/socket.h : yes Checking for header netinet/in.h : yes Checking boost includes : Package gsl was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gsl.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gsl' found ---- Summary of optional NS-3 features: NS-3 Click Integration : not enabled (nsclick not enabled (see option --with-nsclick)) GtkConfigStore : not enabled (library 'gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12' not found) XmlIo : not enabled (library 'libxml-2.0 >= 2.7' not found) Threading Primitives : enabled Real Time Simulator : enabled Emulated Net Device : enabled Network Simulation Cradle : enabled MPI Support : not enabled (option --enable-mpi not selected) NS-3 OpenFlow Integration : not enabled (Required boost libraries not found) SQlite stats data output : not enabled (library 'sqlite3' not found) Tap Bridge : enabled Python Bindings : not enabled (The configuration failed (complete log in /home/vedranm/bin/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build/config.log)) Use sudo to set suid bit : not enabled (option --enable-sudo not selected) Build tests : not enabled (defaults to disabled) Build examples : not enabled (defaults to disabled) GNU Scientific Library (GSL) : not enabled (GSL not found) (Side note: Python bindings don't fail because of this, it's because this installation lacks python-devel package. It would be great, if possible, if this was somehow detected and printed.)
*sigh* the boost waf tool to detect boost libraries is "contrib" or "extra" or somesuch, and is not well maintained. This does not surprise me. :(
(In reply to comment #0) > (Side note: Python bindings don't fail because of this, it's because this > installation lacks python-devel package. It would be great, if possible, if > this was somehow detected and printed.) Python bindings use PyBindGen, they are not based on Boost.Python. No reason why they should fail.
changeset: 7550:2fa7219968b3 tag: tip user: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc@inescporto.pt> date: Wed Sep 28 14:03:25 2011 +0100 summary: Bug 1270 - "Checking boost includes" weirdness
Thanks again. I didn't word stuff on Python quite right; it's unrelated. I wanted to say that Python bindings are in this case disabled for another reason, missing python-devel package and it's good that waf failure with boost doesn't affect the rest. However, it would be much better if waf could detect missing python development headers; at the moment, this results in an exception that gets logged and message "The configuration failed (complete log in /home/vedranm/bin/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build/config.log)." If it's not too hard to do it perhaps it should be created as a separate bug.
(In reply to comment #4) > Thanks again. > > I didn't word stuff on Python quite right; it's unrelated. I wanted to say that > Python bindings are in this case disabled for another reason, missing > python-devel package and it's good that waf failure with boost doesn't affect > the rest. > > However, it would be much better if waf could detect missing python development > headers; at the moment, this results in an exception that gets logged and > message "The configuration failed (complete log in > /home/vedranm/bin/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build/config.log)." If it's not too > hard to do it perhaps it should be created as a separate bug. Yes, open the bug report, attach the config.log file. At least in ubuntu 11.04 this problem does not happen...