Re: [Boost-users] python example build newbie problem

From: David Philp (david.philp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-01 18:43:24

Thanks for your suggestions.  (For the record, it didn't work---other  
stuff absent.)  I'll continue with the package maintainer, and/or  
build boost myself.

David

On 01/07/2008, at 8:22 PM, David Abrahams wrote:

> David Philp wrote:
>>
>> On 01/07/2008, at 1:34 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a file called "Jamroot" in root directory -- specifically,
>>> in /sw/lib/boost-1_35 directory. If not, this is not a good Boost  
>>> source
>>> tree.
>>
>> There is not, though there is a Jamroot in the tutorial directory.
>> (There is a boost-build.jam in the root directory.  I thought might  
>> be
>> equivalent, but soft-linking Jamfile or Jamroot -> boost-build.jam  
>> does
>> not help.)  Thanks.
>>
>> The rest of boost (well, a few bits I've used here and there) seem to
>> work, though, i.e. boost has built and installed into /sw.  I've  
>> had no
>> trouble with the unit test, program options, or threads frameworks  
>> from
>> boost.
>>
>> It may be that the fink package maintainer did not intend to  
>> install a
>> Boost source tree.  Does it follow that the examples will be broken  
>> but
>> the installation might be otherwise correct?
>
> It might be.
>
>> Or do I need to fix this
>> before I can use Boost Python?
>>
>> (My first attempt to use Boost Python doesn't work but that isn't
>> surprising.)
>
> If you want to use it according to the directions in the tutorial or
> supplied with Boost, you'll need the Boost Jamfiles.  If you have a
> /sw/lib/boost-1_35/libs/python/build/Jamfile, then you could try
> downloading
> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/export/46943/tags/release/Boost_1_35_0/Jamroot
> to /sw/lib/boost-1_35.  If you don't have any Jamfiles or the previous
> suggestion doesn't work, I suggest you get a clean Boost source tree  
> and
> start with that.  See http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html
>
> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> BoostPro Computing
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