"David Abrahams"
I've looked at the output of -a -ofilename as suggested in the Building and Test HOWTO but I can't really say that I see any difference that matters.
I suggest looking harder. If that doesn't work, replace the quickstart example code with your code and see if it works through Boost.Build.
HTH,
It did help. In case someone else comes a-googling for the same problem: the quickstart example doesn't have any opinion about linkage which means the auto-linking kicks in and that just works. I was trying to link statically which means I defined BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB and for reasons I no longer remember BOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE. This worked with 1.33.1 but apparently turns off the auto-linking in 1.34.0, which I don't think was used by Boost.Python before, and auto_link.hpp would have told me that I was trying to link statically and dynamically at the same time. Regarding the inconsistency between library names, using --toolset=msvc-8.0 instead of --toolset=msvc solved that problem. Thanks for the coaching. I really appriciate it. j