Compilation fails on Debian 10 (libboost-1.67) #20961

I have tried compiling the code (0.18 and 0.19) and I get an error every time

CCLD libsecp256k1.la /usr/bin/ar: u' modifier ignored since D' is the default (see U') make[3]: Opuszczenie katalogu '/home/pdrobek/bitcoin/src/secp256k1' CXXLD bitcoind /usr/bin/ld: libbitcoin_wallet.a(libbitcoin_wallet_a-walletutil.o): in function ListWalletDir()': /usr/local/include/boost/filesystem/operations.hpp:1249: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::recur_dir_itr_imp::increment(boost::system::error_code*)' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

OS: Debian Buster Libs: libboost-dev-all (1.67)

it seems just linker error. check your dependency location.

I have followed build-unix.md for reference. Configure give me no error so i assume there is no error on my side. I also tried libboost from previous Debian (jessie), no luck.

checking for boostlib >= 1.47.0 (104700)... yes checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes checking for exit in -lboost_system... yes checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes checking for exit in -lboost_filesystem... yes checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... yes checking for exit in -lboost_thread... yes checking whether the Boost::Chrono library is available... yes checking for exit in -lboost_chrono... yes checking whether the Boost::Unit_Test_Framework library is available... yes checking for dynamic linked boost test... no

Cannot reproduce on a clean install Debian 10 VM following the 0.18 and 0.19 branch build-unix.md instructions

Can you run grep BOOST_LIB_VERSION /usr/include/boost/version.hpp to confirm that you are using Boost 1.6.7 and it is installed in a uniform path

What happens if you go through the compile process while passing the following as the configure step: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/include"

Boost Bug Reference: https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/10038

grep BOOST_LIB_VERSION /usr/include/boost/version.hpp

//  BOOST_LIB_VERSION must be defined to be the same as BOOST_VERSION
#define BOOST_LIB_VERSION "1_67"

./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/include"

Options used to compile and link:
  with wallet   = yes
  with gui / qt = no
  with zmq      = no
  with test     = yes
    with fuzz   = no
  with bench    = yes
  with upnp     = auto
  use asm       = yes
  sanitizers    =
  debug enabled = no
  gprof enabled = no
  werror        = no

  target os     = linux
  build os      =

  CC            = gcc
  CFLAGS        = -g -O2
  CPPFLAGS      =   -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
  CXX           = g++ -std=c++11
  CXXFLAGS      =   -fstack-reuse=none -Wstack-protector -fstack-protector-all  -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wvla -Wredundant-decls  -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-implicit-fallthrough   -g -O2
  LDFLAGS       = -pthread  -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie  -L/usr/include
  ARFLAGS       = cr

I dont know why libboost-filesystem is installed in /usr/locale/include (see line from output of make command -->/usr/local/include/boost/filesystem/operations.hpp)

it worked on debian 10 buster

make clean && \
./autogen.sh && \
./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd` && \
export BDB_PREFIX=$PWD/db4 && \
./configure BDB_LIBS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib -ldb_cxx-4.8" BDB_CFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include" && \
make j4

@pdrobek

./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/include"

Why LDFLAGS is passed?

I left it on Debian, move to newest Ubuntu and issue is now resolved. Thank you

Sorry to jump into that closed issue but this issue has been reported on FIRO as well and the easy lazy fix i read so far is to execute:

apt-get install libboost-all-dev

It also has been added in the FIRO documentation building for UNIX. Hope that will help anyone facing the issue in the future :)