On Oct 31, 2005, at 11:00 AM, troy d. straszheim wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:15:49AM -0500, Doug Gregor wrote:
I'm CC'ing John Maddock, who is in charge of the config library. It turns out that we're talking about two different "configure" scripts: I was referring to the new one in the Boost root directory, whereas you've found some issues with the one in libs/config. Sorry about the confusion!
Hey Doug,
The one in BOOST_ROOT doesn't work on platforms that have a real bourne shell and not bash in disguise (I'm guessing you wrote that on a linux box?). FreeBSD 5.4 doesn't like it, for instance... Bourne shell's comparison is a single =, not ==.
Mac, but the same issue exists. Thanks!
If you run ./configure --with-python=/no/such/python the script still runs to the end, like this:
Building Boost.Jam with toolset gcc... tools/build/jam_src/ bin.freebsd/bjam Detecting Python version... ./configure: /no/such/python: not found
Detecting Python root... ./configure: /no/such/python: not found
Unicode/ICU support for Boost.Regex?... no. Generating Makefile...
I now have it turning off Python support when Python can't be found. Thanks for reporting this! Doug