Re: [boost] Packaging in cross-compiling environment

Subject: Re: [boost] Packaging in cross-compiling environment
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-28 03:16:37

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 00:18:11 Ben Gamari wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:13:29 +0300, Vladimir Prus 
<vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > The includes are supposed to be added by this code in 
libs/python/build/Jamfile.v2:
> >        [ cond [ python.configured ] :
> >        <library>/python//python_for_extensions ]
> > 
> > where 'cond' is basically C's ?: operator. From your log, I suspect that
> > python.configured is not set, because python.jam is unable to run python
> > to check it's version.
> > 
> > Could you try the below patch?
> 
> That did the trick. I get into the python build at this point (although
> things still fail with "LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform
> (bad gcc/glibc config?)." errors, but that another matter).

Good to know.

> 
> Perhaps this would be a cleaner patch?

Yes, it's cleaner. However, I have to figure what the code is trying to do in
the first place. I'll take a look at this between Jan 1 and Jan 11.

Thanks,
Volodya