[Boost-users] Python TypeError with application compiled with CXX11_ABI=0

Hi, I have an application I am trying to compile on Ubuntu 16.04. This is using GCC 5.4.0 and libboost 1.58.0 (stock libraries). The application has a linking to a library that was built with GCC 4.*, so I have to compile with D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 to get backwards comparability (otherwise I have undefined abi:cxx11 links). However when I do this, I get a TypeError in Python: TypeError: No registered converter was able to produce a C++ rvalue of type

std::string from this Python object of type str

It looks like boost is having a problem working without the ABI. Does anyone have a work-around or a patch for this? Jackson