Re: [Boost-users] Do I need a seperate boost_python lib for python 3?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Do I need a seperate boost_python lib for python 3?
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-24 11:45:17

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 07:21:06AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Steve Lorimer wrote:
> > We do the following:
> > 
> > PREFIX=/usr/local
> > BOOST_LIBRARIES=python
> > PYTHON_MAJOR_VER=2.7
> > PYTHON_LOC=$PREFIX/python-2.7.3
> > 
> > ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=${PREFIX} --with-libraries=${BOOST_LIBRARIES}
> > --with-python-version=${PYTHON_MAJOR_VER} --with-python-root=${PYTHON_LOC}
> > --with-python=${PYTHON_LOC}/bin/python
> > 
> > PREFIX=/usr/local
> > BOOST_LIBRARIES=python
> > PYTHON_MAJOR_VER=3.2
> > PYTHON_LOC=$PREFIX/python-3.2.3
> > 
> > ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=${PREFIX} --with-libraries=${BOOST_LIBRARIES}
> > --with-python-version=${PYTHON_MAJOR_VER} --with-python-root=${PYTHON_LOC}
> > --with-python=${PYTHON_LOC}/bin/python
> 
> Do you put the resulting shared libs in 2 different locations?

His prefix is the same, so they end up in the same tree.
This is perfectly sane, as they have disjoint names:
  libboost_python3.a
  libboost_python3.so
  libboost_python3.so.1.54.0
  libboost_python.a
  libboost_python.so
  libboost_python.so.1.54.0

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