Compile tips and tricks

Boost is not available

This issue of missing libraries can be caught during configuration phase itself when you are running ./configure to check all the required configuration.

under Ubuntu we can install Boost library as

apt-get install libboost-all-dev

GSL-config not found

sudo apt install libgsl-dev

Cannot convert 'std::ifstream' {aka 'std::basic_ifstream<char>'} to 'bool' in return

Instead return if the stream is good():

return ifile.good();