On 01/07/2008, at 1:34 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
David Philp wrote:
Hi
I'm hoping this is a reasonable place to ask the question but please point me elsewhere otherwise.
I'm trying and failing to build the Boost Python examples. In the directory boost-1_35/libs/python/example/tutorial I am running "bjam". It dies with the following errors: /sw/lib/boost-1_35/tools/build/v2/build/project.jam:266: in find- jamfile from module project error: Unable to load Jamfile. error: Could not find a Jamfile in directory '../../../..'. error: Attempted to find it with pattern '[Bb]uild.jam [Jj]amfile.v2 [Jj]amfile [Jj]amfile.jam'.
Here's my configuration: * Intel Mac OS X, 10.5.3 * boost 1.35
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? 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.) D