Hi, I am on Snow Leopard, and Boost.Python builds for me fine (even the fat 3-way binary). It seems that you have a custom Python installed in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework, and the build process prefers this one instead of the "system" /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. When I installed the custom 2.5 one from python.org, I had the same error, because the build process picked up this custom install of Python. I uninstalled it, and the build picked up the system python, which worked well. I am not sure why the python from python.org does not work, if it's something that's fixed in later releases (2.6, 3.0, 3.1), or not. But building against system python works (Snow Leopard contains versions 2.3, 2.5 and 2.6, for Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard compatibility respectively, with 2.6 being the default). How to specify which Python you want to build against is specified in [1] (not used myself, but seems it's what will help you). HTH, Boris [1]: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/python/doc/building.html#python-co... On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Wong Hua wrote:

I would like to install the python headers from boost, but after successfully (?) building under mac os 1.5, I get this error when trying to build boost on mac os 10.6 machines (tried on two machines with the same result)

./bootstrap.sh doesn't have problems ./bjam give me all kinds of errors

The kind of errors I get :

...failed darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/darwin-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/numeric.o... darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/darwin-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/list.o In file included from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5/Python.h:57,                from ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:142,                from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13,                from ./boost/python/list.hpp:8,                from libs/python/src/list.cpp:5: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5/pyport.h:761:2: error: #error "LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)."

On the mac os 10.5 machine gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)

On the mac os 10.6 machines gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490) gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)

Python is 2.5.4 for all and located in /Library/Frameworks

are there any options I have to use with bootstrap.sh or bjam?

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