On May 14, 2013, at 15:47 , Austen Chen <austen.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was trying to install Mira 3.9.16 on my Mac osx 10.8.3. Please note: at the moment I cannot guarantee that MIRA will work on OSX. There is an obscure bug which strikes under some circumstances, but I currently have no possibility to hunt for it it seems to strike only larger projects (for which I am lacking the necessary RAM under OSX). To be more precise: I discourage using MIRA under OSX for anything but small projects with a few thousand reads. > […] > I then added system to > ./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=thread,regex, system Normally BOOST builds itself with all needed libraries. However, maybe that you have older BOOST installed on the system, follow the advice of Sebastian. B.