Wilson Tan writes:

I'm trying to install Sandia's SST when I encountered this error while running the configuration script.

checking for doxygen... no checking for mpicc... mpicc checking for MPI_Init... yes checking for mpi.h... yes checking for mpic++... mpic++ checking for mpi.h... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for boostlib >= 1.41... yes checking whether the Boost::Program_Options library is available... yes configure: error: Could not link (link_program_options) against !

I installed my BOOST libraries via Ubuntu's Synaptic, and I have installed libboost-program-options-dev, libboost-program-options1.46.1 and libboost-program-options1.46-dev.

Any ideas on how to fix the error? Any help would be appreciated. =)

This can happen when you have multiple versions of the Boost libraries installed (via the package management system and/or manually) or due to a bashism in the AX_BOOST_* autoconf macros. See http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7246 and http://bugs.debian.org/584180 Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962