Libboost libraries installed but not detected.

[PabloGN]

In ubuntu 14.04 LTS I have installed libboost-all-dev but I get:

$ ./waf configure
Check for program g++ or c++ : /usr/bin/g++
Check for program cpp : /usr/bin/cpp
Check for program ar : /usr/bin/ar
Check for program ranlib : /usr/bin/ranlib
Checking for g++ : ok
boost headers : Version 1_54 (/usr/include)
library boost_serialization : not found
library boost_filesystem : not found
library boost_system : not found
library boost_unit_test_framework : not found
library boost_program_options : not found
library boost_graph : not found
library boost_mpi : not found
library boost_python : not found
library boost_thread : not found
Checking for header tbb/parallel_for.h : ok /usr/include
Checking for library libtbb : ok /usr/lib
Checking for header tbb/parallel_for.h : ok /usr/include
Checking for library libtbb : ok /usr/lib
Checking for header mpi.h : ok /usr/include/mpi
Checking for SDL (optional) : ok
Checking for header Eigen/Core : ok /usr/include/eigen3
Check for program ode-config : /usr/bin/ode-config
Checking for ODE (optional) : ok
Checking for GSL (optional) : ok

--- configuration ---
compiler:

• CXX: gcc
  boost version: 1_54
  mpi: False
  Compilation flags :
• default:
  CXXFLAGS : -D_REENTRANT -Wall -fPIC -ftemplate-depth-1024 -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-deprecated -Wno-unused -DUSE_SDL -DEIGEN3_ENABLED -DSFERES_ROOT="/home/pablo/Dev/sferes2" -DNDEBUG -O3 -ffast-math
  LINKFLAGS:
• debug:
  CXXFLAGS : -D_REENTRANT -Wall -fPIC -ftemplate-depth-1024 -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-deprecated -Wno-unused -DUSE_SDL -DEIGEN3_ENABLED -DSFERES_ROOT="/home/pablo/Dev/sferes2" -O1 -ggdb3 -DDBG_ENABLED
  LINKFLAGS:

--- license ---
Sferes2 is distributed under the CECILL license (GPL-compatible)
Please check the accompagnying COPYING file or http://www.cecill.info/
'configure' finished successfully (0.402s)

Some people say that Boost is broken and it is not possible to check Boost versions. Can we avoid it?
conf.check_boost(lib='serialization filesystem system unit_test_framework program_options graph mpi python thread', min_version='1.35')

[PabloGN]

SOLVED (Ubuntu 14.04LTS):
In /usr do:
sudo ln -s lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ lib64
and then it works:
./waf configure --boost-libs=/usr/lib64

[jbmouret]

Thank you. The issue is indeed that the new Ubuntu puts he libs in a lib64 folder that waf does not check. We will work on this issue to avoid the need for the symbolic link.