Trying to compile git head on OSX 10.7.5 with ./configure --without-qt --disable-tests --disable-debug, it fails with:
checking whether the Boost::Chrono library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_chrono-mt... yes
configure: error: No working boost sleep implementation found
I have boost installed with MacPorts:
> port installed | grep boost
boost [@1](/bitcoin-bitcoin/contributor/1/).54.0_0+no_single+no_static+python27 (active)
I remember having the same issues some days ago.
While looking at my config.log, i just saw that i gave the --libdir.
Try ./configure --without-qt --disable-tests --disable-debug --libdir=/opt/local/lib/
That didn't fix anything. I think libdir would only help if it couldn't find any of the macports libs, but you can see from the previous line in the error that it did indeed find libboost_chrono-mt.
hmm... just freshly checkout the master and runned into the same issue.
Played arround with add/remove --disable-tests --disable-debug and --with-qt and it disappeared somehow...
Please paste a copy of your config.log on pastebin (it'll be way too big for here) and we'll have a look.
configure session: http://pastebin.com/z7uLf69x config.log: http://pastebin.com/d3MXjzR6
Ok. Your problem is that you're using --disable-debug. That has a special meaning in OSX (force i386). We're currently discussing how to fix that, as it's pretty broken behavior.
Until we get the debug/release stuff straightened out in the next few days, just don't use --disable-debug.
config.log: http://pastebin.com/TkkNfm8S
cool beans. thanks
@BugAndNewsReporter yep, your log shows the same.
Nope. I'm not using that flag, and I see the same error. All I have is ./configure --without-qt
This is OS X Mavericks. The problem appears to be that the custom AC_TRY_LINK stuff for boost sleep isn't include BOOST_INCLUDES so it can't find the header files.
The first problem was with linking. If yours is with includes, could you please paste the config.log?
I'm not updating to Mavericks on my dev macbook so that I can still have a 10.6 install to reference.
Does boost maybe name the library differently in OSX/windows? For example, "boost_thread" is "boost_thread-mt" in osx. I see that this is checking for "boost_chrono-mt" so maybe its something related to that?
config.log of the failed run:
Yep, the m4's find the path and store it, but we don't use it when doing our own checks. Exactly as @mikehearn said.
Fix is to store the good cppflags before the chrono check and add boost's includes:
TEMP_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $BOOST_INCLUDES"
and reset it after the sleep implementation is set:
CPPFLAGS="$TEMP_CPPFLAGS"
I was having this issue with boost 1.53, turns out that the issue was libpthread not getting linked in. added -lpthread to CXX_FLAGS flags fixed it for me. @mikehearn
your error is conftest.cpp:35:12: fatal error: 'boost/version.hpp' file not found your issue is that it can't find the boost headers in the path. you might be able to fix it by running ./configure CXXFLAGS="-I /path/to/boost/headers"
No, the issue is well understood by now. theuni - are you planning to submit a pull req for this or should I?
@mikehearn I will push up a branch today. If you wouldn't mind verifying that it works as intended, I'll PR it after that. @fryx: lpthread is a different issue. Autoconf should be linking in any necessary threading lib automatically. If it's not, it's a bug. Would you mind opening another ticket for it and linking a config.log demonstrating the problem?
This was a solution for the same problem for me ./configure CXXFLAGS="-I /path/to/boost/headers". Thnx fryx. Using Mavericks.
@mikehearn Sorry for the delay. Mind testing: https://github.com/theuni/bitcoin/commit/5a531982a5d6ec3a6141bba60dcf952e2b4b1669 ?
Doesn't work for me.
Did you remember to re-run autogen.sh ?
Yep, but it's ok. This works for me ./configure CXXFLAGS="-I /usr/local/include". Other things I had problems with is that I had different boost libraries in /usr/local/lib then the ones from homebrew, so that's why my linker failed later. Solution was to
rm /usr/local/lib/libboost_* brew link boost
Now I can compile everything.
Yes it works, thanks, although I then hit a different build error later (for some reason it can't find x86_64 versions of STL symbols). A pull req for that would be great.
Hey, when I tried to build bitcoin-qt using Qt Creator, I got this error (missing boost sleep implementation) which occurs in util.h, any idea on how to fix it? I tried what you suggested here but nth worked with me.
P.S. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04
inline void MilliSleep(int64_t n) { // Boost's sleep_for was uninterruptable when backed by nanosleep from 1.50 // until fixed in 1.52. Use the deprecated sleep method for the broken case. // See: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7238 #if defined(HAVE_WORKING_BOOST_SLEEP_FOR) boost::this_thread::sleep_for(boost::chrono::milliseconds(n)); #elif defined(HAVE_WORKING_BOOST_SLEEP) boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::milliseconds(n)); #else //should never get here #error missing boost sleep implementation #endif }
@NurMasdar, this ticket is about OSX. I'm guessing your issue is something else.
Additionally, I think this ticket can be closed. This appears to have been an issue with boost not being properly linked.
@NurMasdar you must be missing some boost dependency, have you installed all of the packages suggested in build-unix.md?
None of those work for me... Still says sleep missing error.
@kthxbai2u can you pastebin your config.log somewhere?
I've found the issue must be a bug in the configure, as removing the step and forcing -DHAVE_WORKING_BOOST_SLEEP_FOR=1 in my compile works just fine. Of course, I am also linking against static boost (and other) libs and have a patched boost header set. If anyone cares there's a .xcodeproj for dogecoind, some precompiled static libs, and a script to patch the boost headers over in https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/tree/1.7-dev/contrib/macbuild
To those with this issue, could you please confirm that you're actually building bitcoin and not something else? Also, please confirm exactly which revision you're building, with which OS version, and where your dependencies came from. This isn't going anywhere until we can determine the actual problem.
The problem is that you are using OSX and not Debian. The script was coded for Debian.
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I've found the issue must be a bug in the configure, as removing the step and forcing -DHAVE_WORKING_BOOST_SLEEP_FOR=1 in my compile works just fine. Of course, I am also linking against static boost (and other) libs and have a patched boost header set. If anyone cares there's a .xcodeproj for dogecoind, some precompiled static libs, and a script to patch the boost headers over in https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/tree/1.7-dev/contrib/macbuild
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Doesn't work with current Ubuntu 14.04 libboost-all-dev (v1.54). The problem is not just to do with OSX then. Do I have to fix the configure then? Seems much more difficult than it should be. It's got 10s of 1000s of lines with no comments!
Anyone ever thought of splitting this file into separate parts so it can be maintained? I'd expect to see either clearly marked test/configure sections or one main file importing the other parts, again with comments.
Anyway, for now I'd appreciate any tips how to get this working quickly before I have to go and learn the whole autoconf and configure mechanisms. I get the point it's generating small "main" C++ files to test linkage. Pretty straightforward, but written in an extremely complex way (one large template file with one test running straight into the next).
Rather than a workaround, I'd like to know how can we correct it work on all systems with current boost libraries? The sleep function seems pretty simple to cause so much trouble. The other boost libraries (up to that point in configure) worked fine.
I found out that there were some inconsistencies with libboost on the system. To fix this I ran:
sudo apt-get remove libboost*
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
Then the usual bitcoin autogen.sh, configure, make clean then make.
You shouldn't edit the configure file. It's auto-generated from configure.ac as well as src/m4/*.
Currently all the boost libs need to be in one directory for auto-detection to work, otherwise you need to provide --with-boost-libdir. See also #3219
Just got this error on Elementary OS using the 10rc3 source tarball. Installing libboost-all-dev to see if it fixes it.
It did.
Having done
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
cd bitcoin
and
brew install https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Formula/berkeley-db4.rb -–without-java
then
./autogen.sh
I found
brew install boost
enabled
./configure
to finish successfully.