[yigalweinstein]

It seems that I have the static libraries only and not the shared libraries, most specifically, I have no way of knowing if this has anything to do with no boost support.

I tested the library using a simple c++ code another Ubuntu user had created when they thought they had a problem with libboost-serialization-dev, the Ubuntu package in question.

#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/text_iarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/string.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/utility.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/serialization.hpp>

int main(int argv, char** argc) {
  std::ofstream s("./test.txt", std::ios::out|std::ios::binary);
  boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(s);

  //oa << 5;

  return 0;
}

and compiled with,

g++ -o Test main.cpp -lboost_serialization

as -lboost_serialization seems to be the only use of boost when I issue

make

for barry.

rivviepop could you by any chance tell me what your config.log is for the successful build of barry with boost for my equivalent failed lines?

In my config.log they are lines 1175-6

WITH_BOOST_FALSE='#'
WITH_BOOST_TRUE=''

thanks