# Boost issue on mac osx with cmb-superbuild master

**URL:** https://discourse.kitware.com/t/boost-issue-on-mac-osx-with-cmb-superbuild-master/349
**Category:** Build & Install
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/boost-issue-on-mac-osx-with-cmb-superbuild-master/349 "2019-11-18T20:07:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/haocheng_liu/32/36_2.png) [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/boost-issue-on-mac-osx-with-cmb-superbuild-master/349/1 "2019-11-18T20:07:24Z")

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Hi smtk developers，

Recently talsoiv - a smtk dashboard osx machine has boost building errors related to lzma library. [link](https://open.cdash.org/viewBuildError.php?buildid=6213816)

I’m experiencing the same issue on my own osx developer machine. Has anyone encounter this problem as well?

PS: Boost iostream library developers are aware of it and here is their [PR](https://github.com/boostorg/iostreams/issues/102). I’m trying to locate where the outdated `lzma` library comes from.

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### Author: ![chart3388](https://discourse.kitware.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@chart3388](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/chart3388)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/boost-issue-on-mac-osx-with-cmb-superbuild-master/349/2 "2019-11-18T20:20:27Z")

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You can use the config option for boost -sNO\_LZMA=1 to get around the issue for now IIRC. I recall having to do this on Windows build of boost.

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### Author: ![Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/haocheng_liu/32/36_2.png) [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/boost-issue-on-mac-osx-with-cmb-superbuild-master/349/3 "2019-11-18T20:25:13Z")

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Thanks for the tips! It solved my problem. I will take the next 30m to try to find the root cause.