Re: [boost] [1.46.0 beta 1] [SourceForge] Testing beta from SourceForge (was: mirror sync system broken)

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.46.0 beta 1] [SourceForge] Testing beta from SourceForge (was: mirror sync system broken)
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-02 11:16:08

On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 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.

Clearly, I put too much information into my post :-), since I attached my user-config.jam file to it, and neither you nor Jurgen saw it.

In my user-config.jam, I commented out the line:
        using python : 2.6 ;

and now it's building.

Thanks!

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>

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