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On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 18:00 -0500, Ryan Neufeld wrote:
> As anyone who reads my blog knows I have been having considerable
> trouble compiling tpserver-cpp. I've eliminated most of the problems I
> have been having and am now down to what I hope is the last problem.
> I've installed Boost through macports and am receiving the following
> error during ./configure:
> 
> 
> checking for boostlib >= 1.32.1... yes
> checking whether the Boost::Signals library is available... yes
> configure: error: Could not link against  !
> 
> 
> I've been browsing the web and have found similar problems involving
> other boost libraries, and not restricted to OSX. Any clues or ideas?
> I will be attempting to build boost from source, and I will let you
> all know if I finally achieve success.

There should be a configure.log file floating around.  Have a look to
see if that is more enlightening - there will the actual test files
being called.

Looking at the error message I'd guess 'Could not link against
<something>!'

Something is NULL/empty for some reason.

	Regards,
	nash