Building Boost.Python for a custom Python installation

From: Evan Driscoll (evaned_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-06-14 00:31:07

I have a build of Python I made that was installed (--prefix) at
~/python-3.5.2-asan/. I want to build Boost.Python against it. I have Boost
1.70.0.

I have tried a variety of permutations of passing various --with-python
options and such to both bootstrap and b2 with no success. Perhaps the
closest I've gotten is

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=$HOME/boost-1.70.0/
--with-python=$HOME/python-3.5.2-asan/bin/python3.5 python-debugging=on

./b2 --with-python python-debugging=on -d+2  -j8
cxxflags=-fsanitize=address cflags=-fsanitize=address

but with those commands compilation fails because it is looking for include
files in ...../include/python3.5/ instead of ..../include/python3.5dm

While I'm at it, I had to add cflags and cxxflags explicitly instead of
doing what some documentation [1] said to, because:

./b2 --with-python python-debugging=on -d+2  -j8 address-sanitizer=1
/home/evan/Downloads/boost_1_70_0/tools/build/src/build/feature.jam:327: in
validate-feature from module feature
error: unknown feature "<address-sanitizer>"

[1] https://boostorg.github.io/build/manual/develop/index.html#_sanitizers

Evan