configure: error: no boost.filesystem library found - c++

Question

So I'm trying to install ncmpcpp though this github, and the first step is to run the sh autogen.sh script. I've run into a few missing libraries, etc., but I've been able to install them and move on- up until now. I've done some searching and installed a handful of things I thought would help fix it, but to no avail.
sudo apt-get install libboost1.55-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-system1.54-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost1.54-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev
Truth is I don't know enough about Boost or what I'm missing to fix it on my own.
This is where the problem starts:
checking for boost/filesystem.hpp... yes
checking for main in -lboost_filesystem-mt... no
configure: error: no boost.filesystem library found
edit: Here are the surrounding lines to '-lboost_filesystem-mt' in the config.log file.
configure:15510: checking for main in -lboost_filesystem-mt
configure:15529: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -std=c++0x conftest.cpp -lboost_filesystem-mt >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_filesystem-mt
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:15529: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
... and then it goes on to describe the confdefs.h file.

Answer 1

Remove these linkes from configure.ac (section "setting boost environment"):
AS_IF([test -z "${BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX+x}"], [BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX=-mt])
AC_ARG_VAR([BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX], [Boost library name suffix [default=-mt]])
Long ago, the Boost libraries used to have a -mt suffix to indicate that they were multithreading-aware. Debian/Ubuntu dropped this years ago. Maybe other distributions retained it. The Boost library names were never very standardized in any case, which is why configure scripts often try do deal with them, often in broken ways.
You can either remove these two lines or call it like this:
$ BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX="" ./autogen.sh
The proper fix is to convert the script to use the Boost macros from the Autoconf Archive.