Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.67.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.67.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-11 18:10:41

AMDG

On 03/11/2018 07:27 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder whether anyone from the Boost.Build project would be able to
> comment, and can explain the error message.
> It's true I relatively recently added
> https://github.com/boostorg/python/commit/d4d41d94aecc9f8098aabd3587fcb95458451f71,
> but I don't see how this could cause the observed error

I believe that this actually exposed a problem that
already existed rather than directly causing the problem.

> (which doesn't
> seem to be about a failed Python detection, but about an internal
> Boost.Build error (to detect the `python.python_for_extensions` rule).
> 

I fixed this in
https://github.com/boostorg/build/commit/0dacbc3df69fbbb443f1ecaa0ee57c0157d47843
but it didn't get merged to the release branch
yet.

> I can't reproduce the problem myself. From the generated output it seems
> as if passing `--without-python` would suppress the failure, but that
> hadn't been necessary before, or has it ?
> 
> <snip>
>> error: Unable to find file or target named
>> error:     'python_for_extensions'
>> error: referred to from project at
>> error:     ''
>>
>>> --without-python
>> Is Python enabled by default?
>>
>>

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe