Infact, there is only one installation and setting ROS_BOOST_ROOT to /usr/
removes the error. Dont know why the *rosboost-cfg* picks */usr/local* by
default !

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com> wrote:

> Sounds like there's an alternate installation of boost in /usr/local, that
> doesn't include regex.
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Eohan George <eohangeorge@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Boost has its lib in /usr/lib and include files in /usr/include , which I
>> think is the standard location
>> Also since when I run
>> *rosboost-cfg --root*  , it shows */usr/local* ,
>>
>> would I have to set ROS_BOOST_ROOT in that case ?
>>
>> Eohan
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Where is boost installed?  If it's in a non-standard location, have you
>>> set up your CPATH/LIBRARY_PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Eohan George <eohangeorge@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am not able to obtain the link flags and cflags for boost required for
>>>> using 'making' one of my packages.
>>>> Running
>>>> *rosboost-cfg --libs regex*      gives this error
>>>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/bin/rosboost-cfg", line 35, in <module>
>>>>     rosboost_cfg.main()
>>>>   File
>>>> "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosboost_cfg/src/rosboost_cfg/rosboost_cfg.py",
>>>> line 359, in main
>>>>     output = lflags(ver, options.lflags.split(','))
>>>>   File
>>>> "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosboost_cfg/src/rosboost_cfg/rosboost_cfg.py",
>>>> line 276, in lflags
>>>>     print >> s, lib_flags(ver, lib),
>>>>   File
>>>> "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosboost_cfg/src/rosboost_cfg/rosboost_cfg.py",
>>>> line 265, in lib_flags
>>>>     lib = find_lib(ver, name)
>>>>   File
>>>> "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosboost_cfg/src/rosboost_cfg/rosboost_cfg.py",
>>>> line 235, in find_lib
>>>>     raise BoostError('Could not locate library [%s]'%(name))
>>>> rosboost_cfg.rosboost_cfg.BoostError: 'Could not locate library [regex]'
>>>>
>>>> I am assuming that one of the environment variables are missing, but not
>>>> sure which one.
>>>>
>>>> Eohan
>>>>
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