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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Vacpp 10.1 build error
From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-18 16:41:13


On Nov 18, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Friday, November 19, 2010 00:22:08 K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

>> I'm getting what looks to be a Python build error when trying to run
>> regression tests with the vacpp-10.1 toolset.
>>
>> error: No best alternative for /python_for_extensions
>> next alternative: required properties: <python>2.4 <target-
>> os>linux
>> matched
>> next alternative: required properties: <python>2.4 <target-
>> os>linux
>> matched
>>
>> The full error log is attached. Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Do you have two 'using python' (possibly in two different config
> files)?

No, only one. But on this system python is installed in /usr/bin but
my user-config.jam was pointing to another copy in /usr/local/bin.
Removing the python path (/usr/local/bin) from user-config.jam seems
to have fixed the problem.

Thanks Volodya!

-- Noel


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