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Subject: Re: [boost] Can't build in status?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-27 13:56:26


AMDG

On 02/27/2016 11:22 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>
>> it will attempt to initialize python a second time.
>>
>> I expect that running with --debug-configuration
>> will show that the python headers and/or libraries
>> are not being found for some reason.
>
> It seems I had cygwin python in my path, and it wasn't happy with that
> for some reason, I've changed to adding an explicit path to a windows
> build, and that seems to work OK.
>

  I've just committed a fix to avoid causing
an impenetrable error in Boost.Build for this.
Instead, you'll (probably) get an error about
missing headers when attempting to build anything
using python. Hopefully, this will make the
problem a bit easier to track down next time.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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