I am trying to build the Boost 1.46.1 libraries on a Fedora 7 Linux system with the default g++ 4.1.2 and Python 2.5. The compilations do not find the python headers, producing a zillion error messages starting with one like this: In file included from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13, from ./boost/python/converter/registrations.hpp:8, from libs/python/src/object/function_doc_signature.cpp:9: ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:50:23: error: pyconfig.h: No such file or directory The reported compilation command looks like this: "/usr/bin/g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-ccp -march=opteron -pthread -fPIC -m64 -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.1.2/release/address-model-64/instruction-set-opteron/threading-multi/object/function_doc_signature.o" "libs/python/src/object/function_doc_signature.cpp" I tried to follow the latest Getting Started instructions, which changed a bit from the last version I built (1.44.0) to build bjam: cd tools/build/v2 bootstrap.sh bjam install --prefix=../../.. cd ../../.. bin/bjam --user-config=user-config.LINUX_AMDF7 threading=multi instruction-set=opteron address-model=64 variant=release link=static,shared --stagedir=stageF7 stage My user-config.LINUX_AMDF7 file contains this: using gcc : 4.1.2 : /usr/bin/g++ : <compileflags>"-fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-ccp" <linkflags>"-fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-ccp" ; using python : 2.5 : /usr ; Can someone explain why the compilations are not getting the correct include path for Python (/usr/include/python2.5/)? BTW, the Getting Started page http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html in section 5.2.1 step 2 tells me to "Run bootstrap.bat". -- Dick Hadsell 203-992-6320 Fax: 203-992-6001 Reply-to: hadsell@blueskystudios.com Blue Sky Studios http://www.blueskystudios.com 1 American Lane, Greenwich, CT 06831-2560