Salim Fadhley writes:
So can somebody give me an example of one of the files that is likely to be in the BOOST_ROOT folder? If I look for this file then I can find it's containing directory, and then I know for certain what my linux distribution counts as boost-root.
PS. Are there any other users who are running Boost Python on Gentoo Linux? The documents do seem to be very windows-centric.
(note that that there is a mailing list specifically for boost python: c++-sig@python.org which will generally give you faster response on bp questions) This worked for me in January (Linux FC3): 1) build jam: ~/install/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/jam_src phil@gull% sh ./build.sh 2) export python variables export PYTHON_VERSION=2.4 export PYTHON_ROOT=/home/phil/usr242 3) run all tests cd ~/install/boost_1_33_1/libs/python/test ~/install/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/jam_src/bin.linuxx86/bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" test or a single test: ~/install/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/jam_src/bin.linuxx86/bjam -d2 "-sTOOLS=gcc" numpy (the -d2 lets you see the compile flags bjam is using) 4) move the library (for my own work I just use make and the flags I get from step 3) cp -a \ /home/phil/install/boost_1_33_1/bin/boost/libs/python/build/libboost_python.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true \ /home/phil/lib/boost_lib_1_33_1/debug best, Phil Austin