configure: WARNING: Could not find BOOST_SERIALIZATION library

[meghatron21]

Hi.

I know that an issue about this was already posted, but I followed the other posted issue and am still having trouble installing PLATO with boost.

I have tried compiling with PLATO 2.1.0-beta3, PLATO 2.0.0, and git cloning the PLATO library. I have also tried boost_1_67_0 and boost_1_73_0 and am still getting the BOOST_SERIALIZATION library not being found error. I also added the path to the boost library to my LD path.

I have the specs for gcc below:
gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12) 5.4.0 20160609

I am running out of ideas to try and any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[jrm5100]

I'm running into the same issue. With the caveat that I don't really know C++ or make, from what I can see, this occurs in make/m4/rl_configure.m4 line 64:

AX_BOOST_LIB([serialization],[boost::archive::binary_oarchive a(std::cout)],[],[boost/archive/binary_oarchive.hpp])

According to make/m4/ax_boost_lib.m4:

# This macro checks for the existence and linkability of a given boost
# library.  the macro takes up to 4 arguments (with the 1st 2 being mandatory)
# The arguments are:
#   1 - the name of the libarary, as it will be linked (lowercase + underscore)
#   2 - A short C++ line that will fail on compile and link if the library is not found
#   3 - (Optional) Extra libraries to include
#   4 - (Optional) A header that defines the library.  If not given, defaults to
#		boost/$1.hpp

Meaning boost::archive::binary_oarchive a(std::cout) will fail unless the library is found.

I'm guessing this line of code is unexpectedly failing even if the library is found.

[scdudek]

We have updated the configure script in the download package with a possible fix for the issue. It is available as plato-2.1.0-beta4.tar.gz attached to the latest release here and on our lab website at https://ritchielab.org/software/plato-download. Please try it at your convenience.

[jrm5100]

The ./configure step now passes.

I get some linking errors that I think may be specific to my environment (RHEL7) so I can't yet be certain everything compiles.

/opt/rh/devtoolset-8/root/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/8/ld: cannot find -lbfd
/opt/rh/devtoolset-8/root/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/8/ld: cannot find -liberty
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:723: plato] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/gpfs/scratch/jrm5100/plato_rhel7/plato-2.1.0'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1050: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/gpfs/scratch/jrm5100/plato_rhel7/plato-2.1.0'
make: *** [Makefile:619: all] Error 2

Update: I was able to get some help on making sure I had these libraries available to PLATO and I can successfully compile now.