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Subject: Re: [boost] [1.46.0 beta 1] [SourceForge] Testing beta from SourceForge (was: mirror sync system broken)
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-02 10:42:42


Marshall Clow wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Joachim Faulhaber wrote:
>> 2011/2/1 Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:
>>> SourceForge downloads seems to be working much better. I did a
>>> download of the .7z file and got the correct checksum. A second mirror
>>> has come back online and the download speed was reasonable.
>>
>> I have successfully downloaded boost_1_46_0_beta1.7z from sourceforge
>> and built it on ms-windows7 with msvc-9 and 10.
>
>
> I downloaded the tar.gz, and attempted to build it.
> No joy at all (Mac OS X; 10.6.6, toolset darwin)
>
> Here's what I got:
>
> ./bootstrap.sh
> ./bjam
>
> Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
>
>
> Performing configuration checks
>
> - has_icu builds : no
> - ../config//has_gcc_visibility builds : yes
> - ../config//has_long_double_support builds : yes
> error: No best alternative for /python_for_extensions
> next alternative: required properties: <python>2.6 <target-os>darwin
> matched
> next alternative: required properties: <python>2.6 <target-os>darwin
> matched

See if 'project-config.jam' has 'using python' -- and then try to remove it.

This is obviously not the way it should be, but let's first make sure
the problem is what I suspect.

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
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