Caffe using anaconda or miniconda

I have been spending some time in installing the machine learning software caffe on Slackware. I have a modest GPU card, the GE Force GT 730. Slackware version is 14.1. For installing caffe, there are a few requisites which can be easily installed from source. These are: gflags, glog, leveldb, lmbd, snappy and protobuf. Also, users of Python scientific computing packages would be aware of Anaconda or miniconda, which offers a bunch of scientific computing software(and maybe much more besides) in one package or an installer. This is a Very Useful Thing. However, I have had massive trouble compiling caffe using the Anaconda python. The only reason is that the final linking step throws up this kind of error . That is, libboost_python looks for a different version of python that provided by Anaconda(which we specified in the Makefile.config file prior to starting the build. One solution is to re-build the entire boost using the Anaconda python distribution, but it could mean making more changes systemwide. However, I do with that it would be easy to know which python version the built libboost_python.so links to. This information is not available from ldd. There is also an explanation to this in some thread, but practically I found that it is best to use the system python. With the availability of pip, it is no more tedious to install multiple packages.

Adding existing header files in Eclipse project

I am facing a strange problem when I add existing header files to an existing Eclipse. I have added the files using Import->File System->Directories and then choosing the necessary files. This works for making the IDE aware of these files and for symbol resolution. Unfortunately, when the project is attempted to be built, there is a failure due to these included header files. I have taken a look at the forums but the only solution provided is to include these new directories in the c/c++ properties of eclipse. strangely, this problem does not happen in visual studio. I felt that Eclipse can also do this, i do not now why this is not done. This can be considered to be a "wishlist" by the respected Eclipse developers.