Trouble installing Source-Highlight

[Elias Pipping]

On Jul 7, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

> Elias Pipping wrote:
>> On Jul 7, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>> Elias Pipping wrote:
>>>>> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:14:46 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>> From: Binil Thomas <binil.thomas.public at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: Trouble installing Source-Highlight
>>>>> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>>>>>
>>>>> I encountered the following error while trying to install
>>>>> source-highlight package using port.
>>>> < snip >
>>>>> checking whether the Boost::Regex library is available... no
>>>>> checking boost/shared_ptr.hpp usability... no
>>>>> checking boost/shared_ptr.hpp presence... no
>>>>> checking for boost/shared_ptr.hpp... no
>>>> < snip >
>>>>> configure: error:
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR! Boost::regex library not installed.
>>>>> Please install it (download at http://www.boost.org/)
>>>> < snip >
>>>> Hi,
>>>> the problem is caused by boost 1.34. I've tried it with boost  
>>>> 1.33 a
>>>> second ago and it worked flawlessly. I've CC'ed Lorenzo Bettini,  
>>>> the
>>>> developer of source-highlight, maybe he knows a fix (I don't).
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Elias
>>>> PS: I think the link you provided was related to a different  
>>>> problem,
>>>> because it was encountered with v1.33.
>>>
>> Hello!
>>> could you please check where the boost header files are installed?
>>> I haven't tried 1.34 yet
>> % dirs
>> ~/MacPorts/include
>> % ls -d boost*
>> boost  boost-1_34
>> % file boost
>> boost: symbolic link to `boost-1_34/boost'
>> % ls boost-1_34/
>> boost
>> % ls boost-1_34/boost/
>> algorithm                      nondet_random.hpp
>> aligned_storage.hpp            none.hpp
>> any.hpp                        numeric
>> archive                        operators.hpp
>> array.hpp                      optional
>> assert.hpp                     optional.hpp
>> assign                         parameter
>> assign.hpp                     parameter.hpp
>> bind                           pending
>> bind.hpp                       pfto.hpp
>> blank.hpp                      pointee.hpp
>> blank_fwd.hpp                  pointer_cast.hpp
>> call_traits.hpp                pointer_to_other.hpp
>> cast.hpp                       pool
>> checked_delete.hpp             preprocessor
>> compatibility                  preprocessor.hpp
>> compressed_pair.hpp            program_options
>> concept_archetype.hpp          program_options.hpp
>> concept_check.hpp              progress.hpp
>> config                         property_map.hpp
>> config.hpp                     property_map_iterator.hpp
>> crc.hpp                        ptr_container
>> cregex.hpp                     python
>> cstdint.hpp                    python.hpp
>> cstdlib.hpp                    random
>> current_function.hpp           random.hpp
>> date_time                      range
>> date_time.hpp                  range.hpp
>> detail                         rational.hpp
>> dynamic_bitset                 ref.hpp
>> dynamic_bitset.hpp             regex
>> dynamic_bitset_fwd.hpp         regex.h
>> dynamic_property_map.hpp       regex.hpp
>> enable_shared_from_this.hpp    regex_fwd.hpp
>> filesystem                     scoped_array.hpp
>> filesystem.hpp                 scoped_ptr.hpp
>> foreach.hpp                    serialization
>> format                         shared_array.hpp
>> format.hpp                     shared_container_iterator.hpp
>> function                       shared_ptr.hpp
>> function.hpp                   signal.hpp
>> function_equal.hpp             signals
>> function_output_iterator.hpp   signals.hpp
>> functional                     smart_cast.hpp
>> functional.hpp                 smart_ptr.hpp
>> generator_iterator.hpp         spirit
>> get_pointer.hpp                spirit.hpp
>> graph                          state_saver.hpp
>> implicit_cast.hpp              statechart
>> indirect_reference.hpp         static_assert.hpp
>> integer                        static_warning.hpp
>> integer.hpp                    strong_typedef.hpp
>> integer_fwd.hpp                test
>> integer_traits.hpp             thread
>> intrusive_ptr.hpp              thread.hpp
>> io                             throw_exception.hpp
>> io_fwd.hpp                     timer.hpp
>> iostreams                      token_functions.hpp
>> iterator                       token_iterator.hpp
>> iterator.hpp                   tokenizer.hpp
>> iterator_adaptors.hpp          tr1
>> lambda                         tuple
>> last_value.hpp                 type.hpp
>> lexical_cast.hpp               type_traits
>> limits.hpp                     type_traits.hpp
>> logic                          typeof
>> math                           utility
>> math_fwd.hpp                   utility.hpp
>> mem_fn.hpp                     variant
>> mpl                            variant.hpp
>> multi_array                    vector_property_map.hpp
>> multi_array.hpp                version.hpp
>> multi_index                    visit_each.hpp
>> multi_index_container.hpp      wave
>> multi_index_container_fwd.hpp  wave.hpp
>> next_prior.hpp                 weak_ptr.hpp
>> non_type.hpp                   xpressive
>> noncopyable.hpp
>
> but this message
>
> checking whether the Boost::Regex library is available... no
>
> says that the compiler can't find the header files, so probably ~/ 
> MacPorts/include should be added to the include path, e.g., with  
> the compiler option -I
>
> I guess...

Urks. This is silly. Configure.cppflags overwrote the default -I$ 
{prefix}/include with -I${prefix}/include/boost instead of appending  
it. Removing that line solved the problem.

Kind regards,

Elias