Re: [boost] Unable to build boost python library in 1.46.1

Subject: Re: [boost] Unable to build boost python library in 1.46.1
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-24 19:53:56

At Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:33:43 -0400,
Richard Hadsell wrote:
> 
> I tried to follow the latest Getting Started instructions, which
> changed a bit from the last version I built (1.44.0) to build bjam:
> 
> cd tools/build/v2
> bootstrap.sh
> bjam install --prefix=../../..
> cd ../../..
> bin/bjam --user-config=user-config.LINUX_AMDF7 threading=multi instruction-set=opteron address-model=64 variant=release link=static,shared --stagedir=stageF7 stage

If you add --debug-configuration to your bjam command-line, it should be revealing.

> My user-config.LINUX_AMDF7 file contains this:
> 
> using gcc : 4.1.2 : /usr/bin/g++ : <compileflags>"-fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-ccp" <linkflags>"-fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-ccp" ;
> using python : 2.5 : /usr ;
> 
> 
> Can someone explain why the compilations are not getting the correct
> include path for Python (/usr/include/python2.5/)?
> 
> BTW, the Getting Started page
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
> in section 5.2.1 step 2 tells me to "Run bootstrap.bat".

That's a problem; could you please file a bug report at http://svn.boost.org?

Thanks,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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