bitcoin: Missing Boost::System on ARM Ubuntu 18.04

Following the Ubuntu instructions on an Orange Pi Plus 2e running Ubuntu Bionic (Armbian):

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config bsdmainutils python3 ccache
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libevent-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
./autogen.sh 
./configure --disable-wallet --without-gui --disable-tests --disable-bench
...
checking for boostlib >= 1.47.0 (104700)... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
configure: error: Could not find a version of the Boost::System library!

Linux orangepiplus2e 4.19.57-sunxi #5.90 SMP Fri Jul 5 17:58:43 CEST 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

As suggested on Stack Overflow, adding --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf works around the issue. But ideally ./configure should figure this out.

I’ve installed Bitcoin Core on the same type of device before, also using Armbian, though this was over a year ago. I did not need the workaround back then.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments: 17 (17 by maintainers)

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build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to bitcoin/bitcoin by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to HashUnlimited/chaincoin by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to fxtc/fxtc by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to fxtc/fxtc by laanwj 5 years ago
doc: Remove ssl as a required dependency from build-unix — committed to bitcoin/bitcoin by laanwj 5 years ago
[depends] boost: update to 1.70 Summary: Backport of core [[https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15461 | PR15461]]. This PR is known to cause 2 issues: - The build (native) on ARM might be broke... — committed to Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc by Sjors 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to hebasto/bitcoin by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem (see #17010); plea... — committed to hebasto/bitcoin by laanwj 5 years ago
[backport] [depends] boost: update to 1.70 Summary: Backport of core [[https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15461 | PR15461]]. This PR is known to cause 2 issues: - The build (native) on ARM mig... — committed to bitcoin-cash-node/bitcoin-cash-node by Sjors 5 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to PastaPastaPasta/dash by laanwj 4 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to PastaPastaPasta/dash by laanwj 4 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to PastaPastaPasta/dash by laanwj 4 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to PastaPastaPasta/dash by laanwj 4 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to PastaPastaPasta/dash by laanwj 4 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to PastaPastaPasta/dash by laanwj 4 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to vijaydasmp/dash by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to Munkybooty/dash by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to vijaydasmp/dash by laanwj 5 years ago
build: Fix boost detection on Ubuntu ARM 18.04 Update ax_boost_base.m4 to version in progress: autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive#198 This is a temporary workaround for the problem in the 0.19.0 rele... — committed to Munkybooty/dash by laanwj 5 years ago
Merge #18558: build: Fix boost detection for arch armv7l da0842dcd44f8c9c9b167917fac0949b4978c3b0 build: Update ax_boost_mase.m4 to the latest serial (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: ... — committed to cosanta/cosanta-core by laanwj 4 years ago

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My guess is this was broken in #15461 when the boost_base.m4 was updated, but our libsubdirs patch was dropped. I will get our patch upstreamed then pull the latest macro down.

fanquake on Oct 1, 2019

Tested https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/pull/214 on ODROID-HC1 (ARMv7l + Ubuntu 18.04.4): it works both with GCC 7.5.0 and Clang 6.0.0 compilers.

Therefore, I’d suggest to drop https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/pull/198 in favor of https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/pull/214, and apply changes in master before 0.20 branch off.

If no objections, going to replace #18501 accordingly.

hebasto on Apr 7, 2020

It does look like the upstreaming is taking longer than expected. I don’t think it’s good to hold up rc1 on this, so going to push the fix to 0.19.0 only—master can wait for upstreaming.

laanwj on Oct 4, 2019

My guess is this was broken in #15461 when the boost_base.m4 was updated, but our libsubdirs patch was dropped.

The patch itself: 54c7df81f3e5f81cb91646acaf82074a3a6be3b2 from #4704.

hebasto on Oct 1, 2019

@Sjors

Ah excellent, I broke it 😃

This is not your fault 😉

Try this patch:

diff --git a/build-aux/m4/ax_boost_base.m4 b/build-aux/m4/ax_boost_base.m4
index 16fa69b41..65a6379bd 100644
--- a/build-aux/m4/ax_boost_base.m4
+++ b/build-aux/m4/ax_boost_base.m4
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([_AX_BOOST_BASE_RUNDETECT],[
     dnl are almost assuredly the ones desired.
     AS_CASE([${host_cpu}],
       [i?86],[multiarch_libsubdir="lib/i386-${host_os}"],
+      [armv7l],[multiarch_libsubdir="lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf"],
       [multiarch_libsubdir="lib/${host_cpu}-${host_os}"]
     )

hebasto on Oct 1, 2019