Make Error for boost on MacOS

[chintan-vora-tfs]

I am getting the following error on macOS Big Sur

Failed to build Boost.Build build engine
Consult 'bootstrap.log' for more details
make[2]: *** [vendor/src/boost-1.55-stamp/boost-1.55-configure] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/boost-1.55.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

File: vendor/boost-src/bootstrap.log
Error
modules/path.c:16:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'file_query' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
return file_query( list_front( lol_get( frame->args, 0 ) ) ) ?
^
1 error generated.

[Su06690]

I have got the same error

[yumh0811]

Hi, I come across the same error. May I know how to deal with it? Thank you.

[ebrettmann]

I'm having the same problem. Do you all also have the Apple M1 chip? I'm wondering if that's part of the issue

[ebrettmann]

I figured it out! The issue was with the version of boost supplied in the package. I found an old post about new versions of clang/Xcode not playing nicely with old versions of boost. So I deleted the bam-readcount folder and re-cloned it. Then I downloaded the newest version of boost (1.79). I changed the file name of boost1.79 to match the name of the boost supplied with bam-readcount, and swapped the old for the new. Then I followed the install instructions and it worked. Go figure.