pyvlfeat error during installation: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_python-mt-py26

Question

I\'ve haven\'t been successful in finding a solution to the following error which I get during the pyvlfeat 0.1.1a3 installation: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_python-mt-

Answer 1

A quick fix to this is to simply edit the setup.py for pyvlfeat and modify the LinkArgs line to refer to your installation of boost-python. For my system, (and likely many others) this amounts to just changing -lboost_python-mt-py26 to -lboost_python-mt-py27 to refer to the proper Python revision.