build failed on ubuntu14.04

[andyyuan78]

File /home/ubgpu/github/DMLC/minerva/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CheckSymbolExists.c:
/* */

include <pthread.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
(void)argv;

ifndef pthread_create

return ((int*)(&pthread_create))[argc];

else

(void)argc;
return 0;

endif

}

Determining if the function pthread_create exists in the pthreads failed with the following output:
Change Dir: /home/ubgpu/github/DMLC/minerva/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp

Run Build Command:/usr/bin/make "cmTryCompileExec1004526741/fast"
/usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec1004526741.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec1004526741.dir/build
make[1]: Entering directory /home/ubgpu/github/DMLC/minerva/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp' /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report /home/ubgpu/github/DMLC/minerva/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CMakeFiles 1 Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec1004526741.dir/CheckFunctionExists.c.o /usr/bin/gcc -DCHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS=pthread_create -o CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec1004526741.dir/CheckFunctionExists.c.o -c /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CheckFunctionExists.c Linking C executable cmTryCompileExec1004526741 /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec1004526741.dir/link.txt --verbose=1 /usr/bin/gcc -DCHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS=pthread_create CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec1004526741.dir/CheckFunctionExists.c.o -o cmTryCompileExec1004526741 -rdynamic -lpthreads /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthreads collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [cmTryCompileExec1004526741] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory/home/ubgpu/github/DMLC/minerva/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
make: *** [cmTryCompileExec1004526741/fast] Error 2

ubgpu@ubgpu:~/github/DMLC/minerva$

[hotpxl]

Hi. Could you try installing libboost-dev. I'm not 100% sure why this happened. But I found this post and hopefully it will give you some hints.